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A comparison of context-oriented programming languages

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Malte Appeltauer,

Robert Hirschfeld,

Michael PerscheidAuthors Info & Claims

COP '09: Proceedings of the 1st ACM International Workshop on Context-Oriented Programming

Article No.: 6, Pages 1 - 6

https://doi.org/10.1145/1562112.1562118

Published: 07 July 2009 Publication History

Abstract

Context-oriented programming (COP) extensions have been implemented for several languages. Each concrete language design and implementation comes with different variations of the features of the COP paradigm. In this paper, we provide a comparison of eleven COP implementations, discuss their designs, and evaluate their performance.

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A comparison of context-oriented programming languages
1. Software and its engineering
  1. Software notations and tools
    1. General programming languages
      1. Language features
      2. Language types
        Multiparadigm languages

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COP '09: Proceedings of the 1st ACM International Workshop on Context-Oriented Programming

July 2009

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ISBN:9781605585383

DOI:10.1145/1562112

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Pascal Costanza
Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium
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Richard P. Gabriel
IBM Research, United States
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Robert Hirschfeld
Hasso-Plattner-Institut, Germany
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Jorge Vallejos
Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium

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