Languages as libraries

Tobin-Hochstadt, Sam; St-Amour, Vincent; Culpepper, Ryan; Flatt, Matthew; Felleisen, Matthias

doi:10.1145/2345156.1993514

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“…We found this overlay too busy and shifted to using the highlights from Figure 3 for everything but methods, and stopped showing possible assignment sites of variables altogether. We are not aware of a block language that successfully shows all of these dependencies, but we were inspired by the DrRacket editor for the textual Racket language [42] in the alternative approach.…”

Section: Relationships and Dependenciesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Lessons in combining block-based and textual programming

Homer¹,

Noble²

2017

VLSS

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Tiled Grace is a block-based programming system backed by a conventional textual language that allows switching back and forth between block-based and textual editing of the same code at any time. We discuss the design choices of Tiled Grace in light of existing research and a user experiment conducted with it. We also examine the sorts of task preferred in each mode by users who had the choice of editing either as blocks or as text, and find both positive and cautionary notes for block-based programming in the results.

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Section: Relationships and Dependenciesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Lessons in combining block-based and textual programming

Homer¹,

Noble²

2017

VLSS

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“…Racket [25] is an extensible programming language in the Lisp/Scheme family, which can serve as a platform for language creation, design, and implementation. DrRacket [10,11] is the Racket IDE.…”

Section: Language Workbenchesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Bootstrapping domain-specific meta-languages in language workbenches

2016

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It is common practice to bootstrap compilers of programming languages. By using the compiled language to implement the compiler, compiler developers can code in their own high-level language and gain a large-scale test case. In this paper, we investigate bootstrapping of compiler-compilers as they occur in language workbenches. Language workbenches support the development of compilers through the application of multiple collaborating domain-specific meta-languages for defining a language's syntax, analysis, code generation, and editor support. We analyze the bootstrapping problem of language workbenches in detail, propose a method for sound bootstrapping based on fixpoint compilation, and show how to conduct breaking meta-language changes in a bootstrapped language workbench. We have applied sound bootstrapping to the Spoofax language workbench and report on our experience.

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“…More generically, SugarJ allows the embedding of custom defined DSLs into a host language (such as Java) [5]. This leads to an approach where languages act as libraries [29]. The perspective described in "Towards monolingual programming environments" [8], represents an extreme design point where a single language offers the best tools for all the requirements a programmer may have.…”

Section: Integrating Languagesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Towards multilingual programming environments

Storm

Vinju

2015

Science of Computer Programming

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Software projects consist of different kinds of artifacts: build files, configuration files, markup files, source code in different software languages, and so on. At the same time, however, most integrated development environments (IDEs) are focused on a single (programming) language. Even if a programming environment supports multiple languages (e.g., Eclipse), IDE features such as cross-referencing, refactoring, or debugging, do not often cross language boundaries. What would it mean for programming environment to be truly multilingual? In this short paper we sketch a vision of a system that integrates IDE support across language boundaries. We propose to build this system on a foundation of unified source code models and metaprogramming. Nevertheless, a number of important and hard research questions still need to be addressed. Keywords: Programming environments, language interoperability, metaprogrammingProgramming environments are an important thread through Paul's research career. From the early papers on the ASF+SDF Meta-Environment to the Rascal programming language of today, a constant focus of Paul's work has been to improve the life of the programmer with better tools, better designs, and better languages. In the meantime the software landscape has only become more complex, more heterogeneous and more multi-faceted. This short paper envisions a programming environment that both embraces and unifies this multiplicity using one of Paul's favorite topics: metaprogramming. Thanks Paul, for our professional careers and for your friendship. We hope you enjoy reading this paper.

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Languages as libraries

Cited by 24 publications

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Lessons in combining block-based and textual programming

Lessons in combining block-based and textual programming

Bootstrapping domain-specific meta-languages in language workbenches

Towards multilingual programming environments

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