Incremental programming language development

✍ Scribed by Marjan Mernik; Viljem Žumer

• Book ID: 104011828
• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 2005
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 500 KB
• Volume: 31
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1477-8424
• DOI: 10.1016/j.cl.2004.02.001

✦ Synopsis

One of the well-known properties of software systems is that they are subject to changes. Incremental software development enables making such program changes in a non-destructive manner. In the area of programming language deÿnition the language designer/implementer wants to include new language features incrementally as the programming language evolves. In the paper our approach to incremental programming language development is presented. The proposed approach has been successfully used in the development of real programming languages, which conÿrms feasibility in practice.