Department of Computer Science
The International Space Station, in particular, uses the ADA programming language, which was developed in 1980 and recognized as an international standard programming language in 1995. High level languages are written in a form that is close to our human language, enabling to programmer to just focus on the problem being solved. Computer programs can be written in high and low level languages, depending on the task and the hardware being used. That’s why we teach several different languages on our Computer Science masters course, dependent on the module and learning outcome.
In conventional programming languages, sub-expressions are evaluated first, then functions are applied (this is called applicative-order evaluation). This could be a problem if sounds are very long or if sounds are derived from real-time input. Nyquist solves this problem through lazy evaluation, where sounds are represented by run-time structures that will eventually compute samples, but not until they … Read More
