Programming Journal, Volume 11, Issue 1
The Art, Science, and Engineering of Programming

Title Page

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Editorial Message

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Hybrid Structured Editing: Structures for Tools, Text for Users
Tom Beckmann, Christoph Thiede, Jens Lincke, and Robert Hirschfeld
(Hasso Plattner Institute, Germany; University of Potsdam, Germany)

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Pitfalls in VM Implementation on CHERI: Lessons from Porting CRuby
Hanhaotian Liu, Tetsuro Yamazaki, and Tomoharu Ugawa
(University of Tokyo, Japan)

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Efficient Selection of Type Annotations for Performance Improvement in Gradual Typing
Senxi Li, Feng Dai, Tetsuro Yamazaki, and Shigeru Chiba
(University of Tokyo, Japan)

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JoinActors: A Modular Library for Actors with Join Patterns
Ayman Hussein, Philipp Haller, Ioannis Karras, Hernán Melgratti, Alceste Scalas, and Emilio Tuosto
(Technical University of Denmark, Denmark; KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden; University of Buenos Aires, Argentina; CONICET, Argentina; Gran Sasso Science Institute, Italy)

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Evaluating LLMs in the Context of a Functional Programming Course: A Comprehensive Study
Yihan Zhang, Brigitte Pientka, and Xujie Si
(McGill University, Canada; University of Toronto, USA)

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