SLE 2018
Sun 4 - Fri 9 November 2018 Boston, Massachusetts, United States
co-located with SPLASH 2018
Mon 5 Nov 2018 13:50 - 14:20 at Studio 1 - Parsing / Composition Chair(s): Eelco Visser

The goal of modular language development is to enable the definition of new languages as assemblies of preexisting 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 paradigm that hampers wide adoption in the industry. In this paper, we introduce a lightweight 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 CORBA Interface Description Language). We evaluate the effort required to implement and compose these languages using Alex with regards to similar approaches of the literature.

Mon 5 Nov

Displayed time zone: Guadalajara, Mexico City, Monterrey change

13:30 - 15:00
Parsing / CompositionSLE 2018 at Studio 1
Chair(s): Eelco Visser Delft University of Technology
13:30
20m
Talk
Input-Driven Regular Expressions (Vision Paper)Vision / New Idea
SLE 2018
13:50
30m
Talk
Modular Language Composition for the Masses
SLE 2018
Manuel Leduc Univ Rennes, Inria, CNRS, IRISA, Thomas Degueule Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica, Benoit Combemale University of Rennes 1
DOI Pre-print
14:20
20m
Talk
Storm: A Language Platform for Interacting and Extensible Languages (Tool Demo)Tool Demo
SLE 2018
Filip Strömbäck Linköping University
DOI
14:40
20m
Talk
Languages as First-Class Citizens (Vision Paper)Vision / New Idea
SLE 2018
Matteo Cimini University of Massachusetts Lowell