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PCLOS: stress testing CLOS experiencing the metaobject protocol

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Andreas PaepckeAuthors Info & Claims

ACM SIGPLAN Notices, Volume 25, Issue 10

Pages 194 - 211

https://doi.org/10.1145/97946.97969

Published: 01 September 1990 Publication History

Abstract

This paper demonstrates that the CLOS metaobject protocol approach to defining and implementing an object model is very powerful. CLOS is an object-oriented language that is based on Common Lisp and is in the process of being standardized. Implementations of CLOS are themselves object-oriented with all major building blocks of the language being instances of system classes. A metaobject protocol provides a framework for CLOS implementations by specifying the hierarchy of these classes and the order and contents of the communication among their instances. This design has made CLOS both flexible and portable, two design goals that traditionally conflict. In support of this suggestion we present a detailed account of how we added object persistence to CLOS without modifying any of the language's implementation code.

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PCLOS: stress testing CLOS experiencing the metaobject protocol
1. Software and its engineering
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    1. General programming languages
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ACM SIGPLAN Notices Volume 25, Issue 10

Oct. 1990

320 pages

ISSN:0362-1340

EISSN:1558-1160

DOI:10.1145/97946

Editor:
Norman Meyrowitz

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OOPSLA/ECOOP '90: Proceedings of the European conference on object-oriented programming on Object-oriented programming systems, languages, and applications
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DOI:10.1145/97945
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