Constructing a metacircular Virtual machine in an exploratory programming environment

Proceedings of the Conference on Object-Oriented Programming Systems, Languages, and Applications, OOPSLA

Volumn 2005-January, Issue , 2005, Pages 11-20

  Ungar, David ^a   Spitz, Adam ^a   Ausch, Alex ^a  

^a SUN MICROSYSTEMS   (United States)

Author keywords

code reuse; debugger; exploratory programming; fix and continue; Klein; lenses; liveness; meta recursive; metacircularity; mirror based reflection; object oriented; prototypes; reactivity; remote reflection; self; virtual machine

Indexed keywords

CODES (SYMBOLS); NETWORK SECURITY; OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING; VIRTUAL MACHINE;

CODE REUSE; DEBUGGERS; EXPLORATORY PROGRAMMING; FIX-AND-CONTINUE; KLEIN; LIVENESS; META-RECURSIVE; METACIRCULARITY; MIRROR-BASED REFLECTION; OBJECT ORIENTED; PROTOTYPE; REACTIVITY; REMOTE REFLECTION; SELF;

MIRRORS;

EID: 33745933028     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1094855.1094865     Document Type: Conference Paper

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