Smalltalk in a C world
A modern developer is presented with a continuum of choices of programming languages, ranging from assembly languages and C up to high-level domain-specific languages. It is very rare for a single language to be the best possible choice for everything, ...
On the integration of Smalltalk and Java
After decades of development in programming languages and programming environments, Smalltalk is still one of few environments that provide advanced features and is used in the industry. However, as Java became prevalent, the ability to call a Java code ...
Seamless composition and reuse of customizable user interfaces with Spec
Implementing UIs is often a tedious task. To address this, UI Builders have been proposed to support the description of widgets, their location, and their logic. A missing aspect of UI Builders is however the ability to reuse and compose widget logic. ...
Gradual typing for Smalltalk
Being able to combine static and dynamic typing within the same language has clear benefits in order to support the evolution of prototypes or scripts into mature robust programs. While being an emblematic dynamic object-oriented language, Smalltalk is ...
Improving refactoring tools in Smalltalk using static type inference
Refactoring is a crucial activity in agile software development. As a consequence, automated tools are expected to support refactoring, both for reducing the developer's effort as well as for avoiding errors due to manual changes. In this context, the ...
Supporting streams of changes during branch integration
When developing large applications, integrators face the problem of integrating changes between branches or forks. While version control systems provide support for merging changes, this support is mostly text-based, and does not take the program ...
A logic foundation for a general-purpose history querying tool
Version control systems (VCS) have become indispensable software development tools. The version snapshots they store to provide support for change coordination and release management, effectively track the evolution of the versioned software and its ...
Verifiable source code documentation in controlled natural language
Writing documentation about software internals is rarely considered a rewarding activity. It is highly time-consuming and the resulting documentation is fragile when the software is continuously evolving in a multi-developer setting. Unfortunately, ...
Bootstrapping reflective systems
Bootstrapping is a technique commonly known by its usage in language definition by the introduction of a compiler written in the same language it compiles. This process is important to understand and modify the definition of a given language using the ...
Model-driven toolset for embedded reconfigurable cores
Improvements in system cost, size, performance, power dissipation, and design turnaround time are the key benefits offered by System-on-Chip designs. However they come at the cost of an increased complexity and long development cycles. Integrating ...
