A little language for surveys: Constructing an internal DSL in Ruby

Proceedings of the 46th Annual Southeast Regional Conference on XX, ACM-SE 46

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 282-287

  Cunningham, H Conrad ^a  

^a The University of Mississippi   (United States)

Author keywords

Domain specific language; Reflexive metaprogramming; Ruby

Indexed keywords

BENTLEY; DOMAIN SPECIFIC LANGUAGES; DYNAMIC NATURE; META PROGRAMMING; PROBLEM DOMAIN; PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE; REFLEXIVE METAPROGRAMMING;

COMPUTER AIDED SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; CORUNDUM; DSL; MODEMS; PROBLEM ORIENTED LANGUAGES; QUERY LANGUAGES; RUBY; SPONTANEOUS EMISSION; SURVEYS; TELECOMMUNICATION LINES;

LINGUISTICS;

EID: 70449937631     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1593105.1593181     Document Type: Conference Paper

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