Re: [abc] AOSD paper

Are you going to talk about the lexer? If so, do you want me to write
anything about it?

In general, if there's anything I can help with, give me a shout. :-)

- P

Ganesh Sittampalam wrote:

>I've just checked in the skeleton and some unfinished content for the AOSD
>paper. Sorry it's not more - <insert lame excuse here>. Anyway, hopefully
>it shouldn't be too hard to fill it in; I think the most important general
>decision is how much of the details of the code we should show.
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>I'm away most of next week (back Friday morning, but maybe a bit
>jetlagged..), but I should be online from the conference.
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>We need to send in an abstract by next Thursday, along with a list of
>authors and some categories. The list of categories can be found at
>http://www.aosd.net/cgi-bin/genphase1.py - at a guess we fit into
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>10. General-purpose and domain-specific aspect languages, formalisms, and
>paradigms
>and maybe one or both of
>1. Applications, tools, and integrated development environments (IDEs)
>8. Generative approaches
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>We could also make up our own category(s) if we want.
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>Structure of the paper:
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>After the introduction, we need to discuss the design of abc and explain
>Polyglot and Soot. I'm hoping much of this (particularly the picture,
>ecxept that this picture will have the extension bits highlighted)
>will be shared with the CC paper, but with more explanation of Polyglot
>and Soot. I haven't written any of this yet.
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>The next section is a description of the extensions themselves. The idea
>is to get this out of the way so that we can focus on the extension
>mechanisms in a separate section without making the extensions be the
>focus there. I've used Julian's examples etc for most of the content of
>this.
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>Next the extension mechanisms. It's split up into sections of the
>compiler. It's here we particularly need to decide how much code to show.
>I expect that Julian and I will do most of the work for this section
>and the preceding one.
>
>Finally related work, which I've stolen a couple of paragraphs for from
>Oege's draft grant application, and discussion.
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>Ganesh
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Received on Fri Sep 17 21:37:11 2004