Smalltalk-80: the language and its implementation
Smalltalk-80: the language and its implementation
Common LISP: the language
Traveler: the apiary observatory
European conference on object-oriented programming on ECOOP '87
Object-oriented concurrent programming
Object-oriented concurrent programming
Steps toward better debugging tools for LISP
LFP '84 Proceedings of the 1984 ACM Symposium on LISP and functional programming
History cache: hardware support for reverse execution
ACM SIGARCH Computer Architecture News
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The "programs are data" philosophy of Lisp uses Lisp's S-expressions to represent programs, and permits a program written in Lisp itself to implement the interpreter for the language. Object-oriented languages can take this one step further: we can use objects to represent programs, and an object-oriented interpreter takes the form of responses to a protocol of messages for evaluating programs. Because objects are a richer data structure than simple S-expressions, the representation of programs can have more built-in intelligence than was feasible using simple list manipulation alone.This paper surveys techniques and applications for object-oriented interpreters. We focus particularly on object-oriented interpreters that are reversible, those that, unlike conventional interpreters, remember their history of evaluation. We illustrate the techniques involved with two applications of reversible object-oriented interpreters: a reversibIe stepper for Lisp, and a programming environment which constructs Lisp programs from examples.