sle2024s/paper04

SLE 2024 SI paper:
iCoLa+: An extensible meta-language with support for exploratory language development

Damian Frölich, L. Thomas van Binsbergen

• DOI: 10.1016/j.jss.2024.111979
• Extended version of iCoLa: A Compositional Meta-language with Support for Incremental Language Development (SLE 2022)
• T3A: Meta-languages
  • iCoLa+ is explicitly a meta-language for defining languages via reusable components and semantic domains.
• T1D: Composition
  • A central theme is modular composition/restriction/unification of language fragments to assemble full languages.
• T4A: Workbenches
  • The work provides an implemented system/DSL and supports exploratory (incremental/REPL-like) workflows for rapid prototyping.
• T1A: Design
  • It directly supports language design exploration by enabling rapid iteration over syntax/semantics choices in constructed languages.

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