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Language-oriented programming

Programming paradigm

Summary

Programming paradigm

Language-oriented programming (LOP){{multiref2|{{cite journal |last1=Ward |first1=Martin |title=Language-Oriented Programming |journal=Software - Concepts and Tools |date=1994 |volume=15 |issue=4 |pages=147–161 |access-date=15 May 2019}}|{{cite book | first= Robert | last= Pickering | title= Beginning F# |chapter=Language-Oriented Programming

Concept

The concept of language-oriented programming takes the approach to capture requirements in the user's terms, and then to try to create an implementation language as isomorphic as possible to the user's descriptions, so that the mapping between requirements and implementation is as direct as possible. A measure of the closeness of this isomorphism is the "redundancy" of the language, defined as the number of editing operations needed to implement a stand-alone change in requirements. It is not assumed a-priori what is the best language for implementing the new language. Rather, the developer can choose among options created by analysis of the information flows — what information is acquired, what its structure is, when it is acquired, from whom, and what is done with it.{{cite book

Development

The Racket programming language and RascalMPL were designed to support language-oriented programming from the ground up. tools such as JetBrains MPS, Kermeta, or Xtext provide the tools to design and implement DSLs and language-oriented programming.

References

References

  1. (March 2018). "A Programmable Programming Language". Communications of the ACM.
  2. (12 June 2005). "Language Workbenches: The Killer-App for Domain Specific Languages?".
  3. (2013). "Software Language Engineering".
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