A brief look at extension programming before and now

Authors:
Liisa Räihä
Affiliations:
Department of Computer Science, University of Tampere
Venue:
ACM SIGPLAN Notices
Year:
1995

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Abstract

We try to bind together some old and some new: what is an extension. In addition, we give a short analysis of extension facilities in three language systems with slightly different theoretical basis. We compare Ada 9x, Oberon and Macro Language, with additional comments to e.g., C++.