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article · IEEE Software · 2014

Projecting a Modular Future

Markus Voelter, Jos Warmer, Bernd Kolb

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Abstract

Two innovations are enhancing programming languages' capabilities. First, modularity lets you combine independently developed languages without changing their respective definitions. A language is no longer a fixed quantity; you can extend it with domain-specific constructs as needed. Second, projectional editing lets you build editors and IDEs that don't require parsers. Such editors and IDEs support a range of tightly integrated notations, including textual, symbolic, tabular, and graphical notations. In addition, by avoiding parsers, they avoid grammar composition's well-known limitations. Three examples illustrate how these two innovations affect programming-language design. A set of modular extensions of C for embedded programming enables efficient code generation and formal analysis. A language for requirements engineering flexibly combines structured and unstructured (prose) data. Finally, a language for defining insurance rules uses mathematical notation. These examples all rely on the open source JetBrains MPS (Meta Programming System) language workbench. This article is part of a special issue on Software Architecture.

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APA 7

Voelter, M., Warmer, J., & Kolb, B. (2014). Projecting a Modular Future. IEEE Software, 32(5), 46–52. https://doi.org/10.1109/ms.2014.103

MLA 9

Voelter, Markus, et al. “Projecting a Modular Future.” IEEE Software, vol. 32, no. 5, 2014, pp. 46–52, https://doi.org/10.1109/ms.2014.103.

Chicago

Voelter, Markus, Jos Warmer, and Bernd Kolb. 2014. “Projecting a Modular Future.” IEEE Software 32 (5): 46–52. https://doi.org/10.1109/ms.2014.103.

Harvard

Voelter, M., Warmer, J. and Kolb, B. (2014) ‘Projecting a Modular Future’, IEEE Software, 32(5), pp. 46–52. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1109/ms.2014.103.

BibTeX
@article{voelter2014projecting,
  title = {{Projecting a Modular Future}},
  author = {Voelter, Markus and Warmer, Jos and Kolb, Bernd},
  journal = {IEEE Software},
  volume = {32},
  number = {5},
  pages = {46--52},
  year = {2014},
  doi = {10.1109/ms.2014.103}
}

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