On the impact of DSL tools on the maintainability of language implementations

P. Klint; T. Storm, van der; J.J. Vinju

doi:10.1145/1868281.1868291

On the impact of DSL tools on the maintainability of language implementations

P. Klint
, T. Storm, van der
, J.J. Vinju

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

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Abstract

Does the use of DSL tools improve the maintainability of language implementations compared to implementations from scratch? We present empirical results on aspects of maintainability of six implementations of the same DSL using different languages (Java, JavaScript, C#) and DSL tools (ANTLR, OMeta, Microsoft "M"). Our evaluation indicates that the maintainability of language implementations is indeed higher when constructed using DSL tools.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 10th Workshop on Language Descriptions, Tools and Applications (LDTA 2010), March 27-28, 2010, Paphos, Cyprus
Place of Publication	New York
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery, Inc.
Pages	10/1-9
ISBN (Print)	978-1-4503-0063-6
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/1868281.1868291
Publication status	Published - 2010
Event	10th Workshop on Language Descriptions, Tools and Applications (LDTA 2010) - Paphos, Greece Duration: 27 Mar 2010 → 28 Mar 2010 Conference number: 10 http://ldta.info/2010/

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Workshop	10th Workshop on Language Descriptions, Tools and Applications (LDTA 2010)
Abbreviated title	LDTA 2010
Country/Territory	Greece
City	Paphos
Period	27/03/10 → 28/03/10
Other	Workshop held as a satellite event of the 13th European Joint Conferences on Theory and Practice of Software (ETAPS 2010)
Internet address	http://ldta.info/2010/

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Klint, P, Storm, van der, T & Vinju, JJ 2010, On the impact of DSL tools on the maintainability of language implementations. in Proceedings of the 10th Workshop on Language Descriptions, Tools and Applications (LDTA 2010), March 27-28, 2010, Paphos, Cyprus. Association for Computing Machinery, Inc., New York, pp. 10/1-9, 10th Workshop on Language Descriptions, Tools and Applications (LDTA 2010), Paphos, Greece, 27/03/10. https://doi.org/10.1145/1868281.1868291

On the impact of DSL tools on the maintainability of language implementations. / Klint, P.; Storm, van der, T.; Vinju, J.J.
Proceedings of the 10th Workshop on Language Descriptions, Tools and Applications (LDTA 2010), March 27-28, 2010, Paphos, Cyprus. New York: Association for Computing Machinery, Inc., 2010. p. 10/1-9.

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