Bergel, Alexandre; Dony, Christophe; Ducasse, Stéphane (September 2004). Prototalk: an Environment for Teaching, Understanding, Designing and Prototyping Object-Oriented Languages. In: 12. Smalltalk Joint Evenat - European Smalltalk User Group (ESUG). Köthen, Deutschland. 06.-10. Sept. 2004.
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With prototype-based languages, concretization and abstraction are unified into a single concept a prototype. Prototype-based languages are based on a simple set of principles: object-centered representation, dynamic reshape of objects, cloning and possibly message delegation. However, they all differ in the interpretation and combination of these principles. Therefore there is a need to compare and understand. In this paper we present Prototalk, a research and teaching vehicle to understand, implement and compare prototype-based languages. Prototalk is a framework that offers a predefined set of language data structures and mechanisms that can be composed and extended to generate various prototype-based language interpreters. It presents a classification of languages based on different mechanisms in an operational manner.
Item Type: |
Conference or Workshop Item (Paper) |
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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: |
Ducasse, Stephane |
Subjects: |
000 Computer science, knowledge & systems 500 Science > 510 Mathematics |
Language: |
English |
Submitter: |
Anja Ebeling |
Date Deposited: |
06 Nov 2017 13:58 |
Last Modified: |
11 Apr 2024 16:11 |
BORIS DOI: |
10.7892/boris.104384 |
URI: |
https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/104384 |