Paper Info
Title
Modular language composition for the masses.
Abstract
The goal of modular language development is to enable the definition of new languages as assemblies of pre-existing ones. Recent approaches in this area are plentiful but usually suffer from two main problems: either they do not support modular language composition both at the specification and implementation levels, or they require advanced knowledge of specific paradigms which hampers wide adoption in the industry. In this paper, we introduce a non-intrusive approach to modular development of language concerns with well-defined interfaces that can be composed modularly at the specification and implementation levels. We present an implementation of our approach atop the Eclipse Modeling Framework, namely Alex, an object-oriented meta-language for semantics definition and language composition. We evaluate Alex in the development of a new DSL for IoT systems modeling resulting from the composition of three independently defined languages (UML activity diagrams, Lua, and the OMG Interface Description Language). We evaluate the effort required to implement and compose these languages using Alex with regards to similar approaches of the literature.
Year
DOI
Venue
2018
10.1145/3276604.3276622
SLE '18: 11th ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Software Language Engineering Boston MA USA November, 2018
Keywords
Field
DocType
language concern, language composition, language interface, modular language development
Programming language,Unified Modeling Language,Computer science,Digital subscriber line,Interface description language,Activity diagram,Systems modeling,Modular design,Semantics,Reusability
Conference
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
978-1-4503-6029-6
1
0.34
References 
Authors
18
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Manuel Leduc1101.46
Thomas Degueule2183.05
Benoît Combemale342346.61