A Language-Parametric Approach to Exploratory Programming Environments.

L. Thomas van Binsbergen; Damian Frölich; Mauricio Verano Merino; Joey Lai; Pierre Jeanjean; Tijs van der Storm; Benoit Combemale; Olivier Barais

doi:10.1145/3567512.3567527

A Language-Parametric Approach to Exploratory Programming Environments.

L. Thomas van Binsbergen
, Damian Frölich
, Mauricio Verano Merino
, Joey Lai
, Pierre Jeanjean
, Tijs van der Storm
, Benoit Combemale
, Olivier Barais

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › Academic › peer-review

2 Citations (Scopus)

Abstract

Exploratory programming is a software development style in which code is a medium for prototyping ideas and solutions, and in which even the end-goal can evolve over time. Exploratory programming is valuable in various contexts such as programming education, data science, and end-user programming. However, there is a lack of appropriate tooling and language design principles to support exploratory programming. This paper presents a host language- and object language-independent protocol for exploratory programming akin to the Language Server Protocol. The protocol serves as a basis to develop novel (or extend existing) programming environments for exploratory programming such as computational notebooks and command-line REPLs. An architecture is presented on top of which prototype environments can be developed with relative ease, because existing (language) components can be reused. Our prototypes demonstrate that the proposed protocol is sufficiently expressive to support exploratory programming scenarios as encountered in literature within the software engineering, human-computer interaction and data science domains.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	SLE 2022
Subtitle of host publication	Proceedings of the 15th ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Software Language Engineering
Editors	Bernd Fischer, Lola Burgueno, Walter Cazzola
Place of Publication	New York
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery, Inc.
Pages	175-188
Number of pages	14
ISBN (Electronic)	978-1-4503-9919-7
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3567512.3567527
Publication status	Published - 1 Dec 2022
Externally published	Yes
Event	15th ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Software Language Engineering, SLE 2022 - Auckland, New Zealand Duration: 6 Dec 2022 → 7 Dec 2022

Conference

Conference	15th ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Software Language Engineering, SLE 2022
Abbreviated title	SLE 2022
Country/Territory	New Zealand
City	Auckland
Period	6/12/22 → 7/12/22

Keywords

Exploratory programming
IDEs
REPLs
interpreters
notebooks
protocol

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van Binsbergen, L. T., Frölich, D., Verano Merino, M., Lai, J., Jeanjean, P., van der Storm, T., Combemale, B., & Barais, O. (2022). A Language-Parametric Approach to Exploratory Programming Environments. In B. Fischer, L. Burgueno, & W. Cazzola (Eds.), SLE 2022: Proceedings of the 15th ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Software Language Engineering (pp. 175-188). Association for Computing Machinery, Inc.. https://doi.org/10.1145/3567512.3567527

van Binsbergen, L. Thomas ; Frölich, Damian ; Verano Merino, Mauricio et al. / A Language-Parametric Approach to Exploratory Programming Environments. SLE 2022: Proceedings of the 15th ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Software Language Engineering. editor / Bernd Fischer ; Lola Burgueno ; Walter Cazzola. New York : Association for Computing Machinery, Inc., 2022. pp. 175-188

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van Binsbergen, LT, Frölich, D, Verano Merino, M, Lai, J, Jeanjean, P, van der Storm, T, Combemale, B & Barais, O 2022, A Language-Parametric Approach to Exploratory Programming Environments. in B Fischer, L Burgueno & W Cazzola (eds), SLE 2022: Proceedings of the 15th ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Software Language Engineering. Association for Computing Machinery, Inc., New York, pp. 175-188, 15th ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Software Language Engineering, SLE 2022, Auckland, New Zealand, 6/12/22. https://doi.org/10.1145/3567512.3567527

A Language-Parametric Approach to Exploratory Programming Environments. / van Binsbergen, L. Thomas; Frölich, Damian; Verano Merino, Mauricio et al.
SLE 2022: Proceedings of the 15th ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Software Language Engineering. ed. / Bernd Fischer; Lola Burgueno; Walter Cazzola. New York: Association for Computing Machinery, Inc., 2022. p. 175-188.

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › Academic › peer-review

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van Binsbergen LT, Frölich D, Verano Merino M, Lai J, Jeanjean P, van der Storm T et al. A Language-Parametric Approach to Exploratory Programming Environments. In Fischer B, Burgueno L, Cazzola W, editors, SLE 2022: Proceedings of the 15th ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Software Language Engineering. New York: Association for Computing Machinery, Inc. 2022. p. 175-188 doi: 10.1145/3567512.3567527

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