Declarative Name Binding and Scope Rules

Preprint of paper published in: SLE 2012 - 5th International Conference on Software Language Engineering, 26-28 September 2012, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 7745; doi:10.1007/978-3-642-36089-3_18 In textual software languages, names are used to reference elements like variables, methods, classes, etc. Name resolution analyses these names in...

Software Development Environments on the Web: A Research Agenda

Preprint of paper published in: Onward! 2012 - Proceedings of the 11th SIGPLAN symposium on New ideas, new paradigms, and reflections on programming and software, 19-26 October 2012; 10.1145/2384592.2384603 Software is rapidly moving from the desktop to theWeb. The Web provides a generic user interface that allows ubiquitous access, instant...

Natural and Flexible Error Recovery for Generated Modular Language Environments

Author's version of the work published in: ACM Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems (TOPLAS), 34 (4), 2012; doi:10.1145/2400676.2400678. Integrated development environments (IDEs) increase programmer productivity, providing rapid, interactive feedback based on the syntax and semantics of a language. Unlike conventional parsing...

Domain-Specific Languages for Composable Editor Plugins

Modern IDEs increase developer productivity by incorporating many different kinds of editor services. These can be purely syntactic, such as syntax highlighting, code folding, and an outline for navigation; or they can be based on the language semantics, such as in-line type error reporting and resolving identifier declarations. Building all...

A Pure Object-Oriented Embedding of Attribute Grammars

Attribute grammars are a powerful specification paradigm for many language processing tasks, particularly semantic analysis of programming languages. Recent attribute grammar systems use dynamic scheduling algorithms to evaluate attributes by need. In this paper, we show how to remove the need for a generator, by embedding a dynamic approach in...

Providing Rapid Feedback in Generated Modular Language Environments

This paper is a pre-print of: Providing Rapid Feedback in Generated Modular Language Environments. Adding Error Recovery to Scannerless Generalized-LR Parsing. In: Gary T. Leavens, editor, Proceedings of the 24th ACM SIGPLAN Conference on Object-Oriented Programing, Systems, Languages, and Applications (OOPSLA 2009), ACM, 2009. Integrated...

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...

Domain-Specific Languages for Composable Editor Plugins

This paper is a pre-print of: Lennart C. L. Kats, Karl T. Kalleberg, Eelco Visser. Domain-Specific Languages for Composable Editor Plugins. 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...

WebDSL: A Domain-Specific Language for Dynamic Web Applications

Preprint of paper published in: OOPSLA 2008 - ACM SIGPLAN Conference on Object-Oriented Programming, Systems, Languages, and Applications, 19-23 October 2008; doi:10.1145/1449814.1449858 WebDSL is a domain-specific language for the implementation of dynamic web applications with a rich data model. It consists of a core language with constructs...

Generating Editors for Embedded Languages: Integrating SGLR into IMP

Preprint of paper published in: LDTA 2008: 8th Workshop on Language Descriptions, Tools and Applications, 5 April 2008 Integrated Development Environments (IDEs) increase productivity by providing a rich user interface and rapid feedback for a specific language. Creating an editor for a specific language is not a trivial undertaking, and is a...

Decorated Attribute Grammars: Attribute Evaluation Meets Strategic Programming (Extended Technical Report)

Preprint of paper published in: Compiler Construction, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 5501, 2009; doi:10.1007/978-3-642-00722-4_11 Attribute grammars are a powerful specification formalism for tree-based computation, particularly for software language processing. Various extensions have been proposed to abstract over common patterns in...

When Frameworks Let You Down: Platform-Imposed Constraints on the Design and Evolution of Domain-Specific Languages

Preprint of paper published in: DSM 2008 - Proceedings of the 8th OOPSLA Workshop on Domain-Specific Modeling, Nashville, USA, 19-20 October 2008

Code Generation by Model Transformation: A Case Study in Transformation Modularity

Preprint of paper published in: Theory and Practice of Model Transformations (ICMT 2008), Lecture Notes in Computer Science 5063; doi:10.1007/978-3-540-69927-9_13 The realization of model-driven software development requires effective techniques for implementing code generators for domain-specific languages. This paper identifies techniques for...

When Frameworks Let You Down: Platform-Imposed Constraints on the Design and Evolution of Domain-Specific Languages