Felleisen

Horizon Day
Programming Languages
for
Real-World Software

Speaker:

Matthias Felleisen

Title:

Building Extensible Software: A Programming Language Perspective

(9:30-10:45 a.m., November 6, 1998, Lindley Hall 102)

Abstract:

Why does abstraction matter in software engineering? What is the key to re-use? What is extensibility or black-box re-use? What kind of programming protocols (patterns) implement extensible systems? How can programming languages support extensibility? These and other questions arose from work on DrScheme, a programming environment for introductory programming. The talk will present partial answers and suggestions for language implementors.