Why Smalltalk Wins the Host Languages Shootout

Renggli, Lukas; Girba, Tudor (2009). Why Smalltalk Wins the Host Languages Shootout. In: Proceedings of International Workshop on Smalltalk Technologies (IWST 2009) (pp. 107-113). New York: Association for Computing Machinery ACM 10.1145/1735935.1735954

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Integration 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.

Item Type:

Conference or Workshop Item (Paper)

Division/Institute:

08 Faculty of Science > Institute of Computer Science (INF)
08 Faculty of Science > Institute of Computer Science (INF) > Software Composition Group (SCG) [discontinued]

UniBE Contributor:

Renggli, Lukas

Publisher:

Association for Computing Machinery ACM

Language:

English

Submitter:

Factscience Import

Date Deposited:

04 Oct 2013 15:24

Last Modified:

15 Jan 2023 00:29

Publisher DOI:

10.1145/1735935.1735954

BORIS DOI:

10.7892/boris.37760

URI:

https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/37760 (FactScience: 209630)

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