| Title: | A preliminary study on various implementation approaches of domain-specific language |
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| Authors: | ID Kosar, Tomaž (Author)
ID Martínez López, Pablo E. (Author)
ID Barrientos, Pablo A. (Author)
ID Mernik, Marjan (Author) |
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| Files: |  http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.infsof.2007.04.002
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| Language: | English |
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| Work type: | Unknown |
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| Typology: | 1.01 - Original Scientific Article |
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| Organization: | FERI - Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
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| Abstract: | Various implementation approaches for developing a domain-specific language are available in literature. There are certain common beliefs about the advantages/disadvantages of these approaches. However, it is hard to be objective and speak in favor of a particular one, since these implementation approaches are normally compared over diverse application domains. The purpose of this paper is to provide empirical results from ten diverse implementation approaches for domain-specific languages, but conducted using the same representative language. Comparison shows that these discussed approaches differ in terms of the effort need to implement them, however, the effort needed by a programmer to implement a domain-specific language should not be the only factor taken into consideration. Another important factor is the effort needed by an end-user to rapidly write correct programs using the produced domain-specific language. Therefore, this paper also provides empirical results on end-user productivity, which is measured as the lines of code needed to express a domain-specific program, similarity to the original notation, and how error-reporting and debugging are supported in a given implementation. |
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| Keywords: | domain-specific languages, embedded approach, preprocessing, compiler/interpreter generator, extesible compiler/interpreter |
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| Year of publishing: | 2008 |
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| PID: | 20.500.12556/DKUM-27385  |
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| UDC: | 004.43 |
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| ISSN on article: | 0950-5849 |
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| COBISS.SI-ID: | 11399958 |
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| NUK URN: | URN:SI:UM:DK:B28J02S3 |
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| Publication date in DKUM: | 01.06.2012 |
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| Views: | 2137 |
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| Downloads: | 111 |
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| Categories: | Misc.
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