RbFeatures: Feature-oriented programming with Ruby

Science of Computer Programming

Volumn 77, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 152-173

  Günther, Sebastian ^a   Sunkle, Sagar ^a  

^a OTTO VON GUERICKE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Domain specific languages; Dynamic programming languages; Feature oriented programming

Indexed keywords

CORE FUNCTIONALITY; DOMAIN SPECIFIC LANGUAGES; FEATURE CONFIGURATION; FEATURE-ORIENTED PROGRAMMING; MULTIPLE VARIANTS; PRODUCT-LINES; PROGRAM UNITS; PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE; RUNTIMES; SOFTWARE PRODUCT LINE; WEB APPLICATION;

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES; OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING; PROBLEM ORIENTED LANGUAGES; RUBY; SEMANTICS; XML;

DYNAMIC PROGRAMMING;

EID: 84855187033     PISSN: 01676423     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scico.2010.12.007     Document Type: Conference Paper

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