Domain-specific languages (DSLs) are languages tailored to a specific application domain.
They offer substantial gains in expressiveness and ease of use compared with general …

Metaprogramming is the process of writing computer programs that treat programs as data,
enabling them to analyze or transform existing programs or generate new ones. While the …

The idea for this book arose from a series of lectures on modern programming paradigms,
feature-oriented programming, and software product lines that are continuously held at the …

Existing approaches to extend a programming language with syntactic sugar often leave a
bitter taste, because they cannot be used with the same ease as the main extension …

Application programmer's interfaces give access to domain knowledge encapsulated in
class libraries without providing the appropriate notation for expressing domain composition …

The C preprocessor has received strong criticism in academia, among others regarding
separation of concerns, error proneness, and code obfuscation, but is widely used in …

We explore how to make the benefits of modularity available for syntactic specifications and
present Rats!, a parser generator for Java that supports easily extensible syntax. Our parser …

Meta programs manipulate structured representations, ie, abstract syntax trees, of programs.
The conceptual distance between the concrete syntax meta-programmers use to reason …

Dynamically typed languages such as Python and Ruby have experienced a rapid grown in
popularity in recent times. However, there is much confusion as to what makes these …

Model management is the discipline of managing artefacts used in Model-Driven
Engineering (MDE). A model management framework defines and implements the …