Understanding software through linguistic abstraction

Preprint submitted to "Science of Computer Programming", Elsevier, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.scico.2013.12.001 In this essay, I argue that linguistic abstraction should be used systematically as a tool to capture our emerging understanding of domains of computation. Moreover, to enable that systematic application, we need to capture our...

A Pure Object-Oriented Embedding of Attribute Grammars

This paper is a pre-print of: Anthony M. Sloane, Lennart C. L. Kats, Eelco Visser. A Pure Object-Oriented Embedding of Attribute Grammars. In T. Ekman and J. Vinju, editors, Proceedings of the Ninth Workshop on Language Descriptions, Tools, and Applications (LDTA’09), Electronic Notes in Theoretical Computer Science. York, United Kingdom, March...

Weaving Web Applications with WebDSL (Demonstration)

This paper is a pre-print of: Danny M. Groenewegen, and Eelco Visser. Weaving Web Applications with WebDSL (Demonstration). In: Gary T. Leavens (editor) Companion to the 24th ACM SIGPLAN Conference on Object-Oriented Programing, Systems, Languages, and Applications (OOPSLA 2009). WebDSL is a domain-specific language for the development of web...

Declarative Access Control for WebDSL: Combining Language Integration and Separation of Concerns

Preprint of paper published in: ICWE 2008 - 8th International Conference on Web Engineering, 14-18 July 2008; doi:10.1109/ICWE.2008.15 In this paper, we present the extension of WebDSL, a domain-specific language for web application development, with abstractions for declarative definition of access control. The extension supports the definition...