Supporting Software Change in the Programming Language

Oscar Nierstrasz (1) , Marcus Denker (1)

1 SCG - Software Composition Group [Bern]

In this paper we briefly review various kinds of software changes and the issues that arise from them. As a consequence, we propose research into programming languages with explicit support for representing first-class changes, and for manipulating and merging multiple viewpoints of evolving software systems.

Domaines: Langage de programmation [cs.PL]

Oscar Nierstrasz, Marcus Denker. Supporting Software Change in the Programming Language. OOPSLA Workshop on Revival of Dynamic Languages, ACM, 2004, Vancouver, Canada. ⟨inria-00555696⟩