Smalltalk-80: the language and its implementation
Smalltalk-80: the language and its implementation
Subject-oriented programming: a critique of pure objects
OOPSLA '93 Proceedings of the eighth annual conference on Object-oriented programming systems, languages, and applications
MultiJava: modular open classes and symmetric multiple dispatch for Java
OOPSLA '00 Proceedings of the 15th ACM SIGPLAN conference on Object-oriented programming, systems, languages, and applications
Supporting aggregation in fine grained software configuration management
Proceedings of the 10th ACM SIGSOFT symposium on Foundations of software engineering
Navigating and querying code without getting lost
Proceedings of the 2nd international conference on Aspect-oriented software development
OOPSLA '04 Companion to the 19th annual ACM SIGPLAN conference on Object-oriented programming systems, languages, and applications
Efficient storage and fast querying of source code
Information Systems Frontiers
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In any programming system the environment in which a program is constructed is tightly bound to the format of the data used to represent that program. As software development environments are becoming more sophisticated, there is a growing need to get richer representations of programs that allow programs to be treated at a much higher level of abstraction than as sequences of characters in source files.In this paper we explore the use of a database representation as a medium for representing and manipulating programs. We report on the work we did on two different Eclipse plugins exemplifying the potential advantages of such a representation. The first plugin explores the use of a database representation to store programs written in a traditional programming language (Java). The second plugin is part of a research effort to try to define a programming language directly in terms of a database representation.