sle2009/paper01

SLE 2009 paper:
Language Evolution in Practice: The History of GMF

Markus Herrmannsdörfer, Daniel Ratiu, Guido Wachsmuth

• DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-12107-4_3
• T2B: Evolution
  • The paper is explicitly about how the GMF language/tooling evolved over time and what that evolution looked like in practice.
• T4A: Workbenches
  • GMF is a language workbench/tooling platform, so the narrative is grounded in evolution of meta-tools.
• T2A: Lifecycle
  • It also concerns lifecycle aspects of a language framework (changes, migration, and long-term sustainability).

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