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[msc-thesis1617.git] / glossaries.tex
1 \newglossaryentry{Arduino}{name=\emph{Arduino},
2 description={is a cheap and popular microcontroller that is widely used for
3 rapid prototyping}}
4 \newglossaryentry{Clean}{name={\emph{Clean}},
5 description={is a statically typed pure lazy functional programming
6 language based on graph rewriting}}
7 \newglossaryentry{Haskell}{name={\emph{Haskell}},
8 description={is a staticly typed pure lazy functional programming language}}
9 \newglossaryentry{iTasks}{name=\emph{iTasks},
10 description={is a \gls{TOP} implementation written as an
11 \gls{EDSL} in the \gls{Clean} programming language}}
12 \newglossaryentry{Ivory}{name={\emph{Ivory}},
13 description={is a type-safe \gls{EDSL} designed to generate \gls{C}-code
14 for high-assurance low-level systems}}
15 \newglossaryentry{Task}{name=\emph{Task},
16 description={is the basic building block of a \gls{TOP} system}}
17 \newglossaryentry{mTask}{name=\emph{mTask},
18 description={is an abstraction for \glspl{Task} living on \gls{IoT}
19 devices. Moreover, it is the name of an \gls{EDSL}}}
20 \newglossaryentry{C}{name=\textsc{C},
21 description={is low-level imperative programming language suitable for
22 embedded devices}}
23 \newglossaryentry{C++}{name={\textsc{C++}},
24 description={is low-level imperative and object-oriented programming
25 language suitable for embedded devices based on \gls{C}}}
26 \newglossaryentry{SAPL}{name={\textsc{SAPL}},
27 description={is an intermediate purely functional programming language}}
28 \newglossaryentry{Firmata}{name={\emph{Firmata}},
29 description={is standardized protocol for communicating with
30 microcontrollers}}
31 \newglossaryentry{Javascript}{name={\emph{Javascript}},
32 description={is an imperative programming language designed to run in web
33 browsers}}
34 \newglossaryentry{LED}{name={LED},
35 description={Lighting Emitting Diode}}
36 \newcommand{\newglossacr}[2]{\newglossaryentry{#1}{
37 name={#1},
38 first={#2 (#1)},%
39 firstplural={#2\glspluralsuffix{} (#1\glspluralsuffix)},
40 description={#2}}}
41 \newglossacr{ADT} {Algebraic Datatype}
42 \newglossacr{ARM} {Acorn \glsentryname{RISC} Machine}
43 \newglossacr{AST} {Abstract Syntax Tree}
44 \newglossacr{EDSL} {Embedded Domain Specific Language}
45 \newglossacr{GADT} {Generalized Algebraic Data type}
46 \newglossacr{GLONASS}{Global Navigation Satellite System}
47 \newglossacr{GNSS} {Global Navigation Satellite System}
48 \newglossacr{GPIO} {General-Purpose Input/Output}
49 \newglossacr{GPS} {Global Positioning System}
50 \newglossacr{IDE} {Integrated Development Environment}
51 \newglossacr{IoT} {Internet of Things}
52 \newglossacr{JSON} {JavaScript Object Notation}
53 \newglossacr{LCD} {Liquid Crystal Display}
54 \newglossacr{RFID} {Radio-Frequency Identification}
55 \newglossacr{RISC} {Reduced Instruction Set Computer}
56 \newglossacr{RWST} {Reader Writer State Transformer Monad}
57 \newglossacr{SDS} {Shared Data Source}
58 \newglossacr{TCP} {Transmission Control Protocol}
59 \newglossacr{TOP} {Task Oriented Programming}
60 \newglossacr{MSB} {Most Significant Byte}