Using Smalltalk as a reflective executable meta-language

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 4199 LNCS, Issue , 2006, Pages 604-618

  Ducasse, Stéphane ^a,b   Gîrba, Tudor ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE SAVOIE   (France)

Author keywords

Meta behavior description; Reflective language; Smalltalk

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; METADATA; REENGINEERING; SEMANTICS;

META BEHAVIOR DESCRIPTION; META LANGUAGES; REFLECTIVE LANGUAGES;

OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING;

EID: 33750337633     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/11880240_42     Document Type: Conference Paper

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