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Designing an Extensible Distributed Language with a Meta-Level Architecture

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ECOOP’ 93 — Object-Oriented Programming (ECOOP 1993)

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This paper presents a methodology for designing extensible languages for distributed computing. As a sample product of this methodology, which is based on a meta-level (or reflective) technique, this paper describes a variant of C++ called Open C++, in which the programmer can alter the implementation of method calls to obtain new language functionalities suitable for the programmer’s applications. This paper also presents a framework called Object Communities, which is used to help obtain various functionalities for distributed computing on top of Open C++. Because the overhead due to the meta level computation is negligible in distributed computing, this methodology is applicable to practical programming.

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    Shigeru Chiba & Takashi Masuda

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Chiba, S., Masuda, T. (1993). Designing an Extensible Distributed Language with a Meta-Level Architecture. In: Nierstrasz, O.M. (eds) ECOOP’ 93 — Object-Oriented Programming. ECOOP 1993. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 707. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-47910-4_24

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