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- . Why Smalltalk Wins the Host Languages Shootout. In Proceedings of International Workshop on Smalltalk
Technologies (IWST 2009), p. 107—113, ACM, New York, NY, USA, 2009. DOI PDF →
AbstractIntegration of multiple languages into each other and into an existing development environment is a difficult task. As a consequence, developers often end up using only internal DSLs that strictly rely on the constraints imposed by the host language. Infrastructures do exist to mix languages, but they often do it at the price of losing the development tools of the host language. Instead of inventing a completely new infrastructure, our solution is to integrate new languages deeply into the existing host environment and reuse the infrastructure offered by it. In this paper we show why Smalltalk is the best practical choice for such a host language.
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About my publications
Most of my early papers are related to my PhD thesis and deal with evolution analysis.
The essence of my PhD can be found in a journal article published in JSME.
Since 2005 I got involved in various projects and I co-authored publications on topics mostly in the reengineering area.
We reported on the Story of the Moose and the role of Smalltalk and meta-modeling in its development.
Other works relate to semantic analysis or dynamic analysis. A particular topic that continues to capture my attention is identifying how teams work. Thus, I worked on correlating authorship information with code duplication or feature development
I also got involved in dynamic analysis. I worked on identifying features and their evolution, and I participated in the development of object-flow analysis, a novel dynamic analysis that led to a publication that received the distinguished paper award at ECOOP 2008.
Visualization and interaction are crosscutting concerns in my research. The experience resulted in the development of Mondrian, and of Glamour.