Changeset 0111dc7 for doc/rob_thesis/thesis-frontpgs.tex

Timestamp:

Apr 13, 2017, 8:29:38 PM (6 years ago)

Author:

Rob Schluntz <rschlunt@…>

Branches:

ADT, aaron-thesis, arm-eh, cleanup-dtors, deferred_resn, demangler, enum, forall-pointer-decay, jacob/cs343-translation, jenkins-sandbox, master, new-ast, new-ast-unique-expr, new-env, no_list, persistent-indexer, pthread-emulation, qualifiedEnum, resolv-new, with_gc

Children:

1a16e9d

Parents:

c87eb50

Message:

penultimate thesis draft

File:

• doc/rob_thesis/thesis-frontpgs.tex (modified) (4 diffs)

doc/rob_thesis/thesis-frontpgs.tex

@@ -24 +24 @@
 
         \Large
-        Rob Schluntz \\
+        Robert Schluntz \\
 
         \vspace*{3.0cm}
@@ -43 +43 @@
         \vspace*{1.0cm}
 
-        \copyright\ Rob Schluntz 2017 \\
+        \copyright\ Robert Schluntz 2017 \\
         \end{center}
 \end{titlepage}
@@ -77 +77 @@
 
 \CFA is a modern, non-object-oriented extension of the C programming language.
-This thesis introduces two fundamental language features: tuples and constructors/destructors, as well as improved variadic functions.
+This thesis addresses several critical deficiencies of C, notably: resource management, a limited function-return mechanism, and unsafe variadic functions.
+To solve these problems, two fundamental language features are introduced: tuples and constructors/destructors.
 While these features exist in prior programming languages, the contribution of this work is engineering these features into a highly complex type system.
+C is an established language with a dedicated user-base.
+An important goal is to add new features in a way that naturally feels like C, to appeal to this core user-base, and due to huge amounts of legacy code, maintaining backwards compatibility is crucial.
 
 \cleardoublepage
 %\newpage
 
-% A C K N O W L E D G E M E N T S
-% -------------------------------
+% % A C K N O W L E D G E M E N T S
+% % -------------------------------
 
-\begin{center}\textbf{Acknowledgements}\end{center}
+% \begin{center}\textbf{Acknowledgements}\end{center}
 
-% I would like to thank all the little people who made this possible.
-TODO
-\cleardoublepage
-%\newpage
+% % I would like to thank all the little people who made this possible.
+% TODO
+% \cleardoublepage
+% %\newpage
 
-% D E D I C A T I O N
-% -------------------
+% % D E D I C A T I O N
+% % -------------------
 
-\begin{center}\textbf{Dedication}\end{center}
+% \begin{center}\textbf{Dedication}\end{center}
 
-% This is dedicated to the one I love.
-TODO
-\cleardoublepage
-%\newpage
+% % This is dedicated to the one I love.
+% TODO
+% \cleardoublepage
+% %\newpage
 
 % T A B L E   O F   C O N T E N T S
@@ -119 +122 @@
 %\newpage
 
-% L I S T   O F   F I G U R E S
-% -----------------------------
-\addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{List of Figures}
-\listoffigures
-\cleardoublepage
-\phantomsection         % allows hyperref to link to the correct page
-%\newpage
+% % L I S T   O F   F I G U R E S
+% % -----------------------------
+% \addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{List of Figures}
+% \listoffigures
+% \cleardoublepage
+% \phantomsection               % allows hyperref to link to the correct page
+% %\newpage
 
 % L I S T   O F   S Y M B O L S