Re: [abc] AOSD paper

I've written something, which you should definitely look at. It's one of
the bits that I'm not quite sure how much detail to go into yet.

Ganesh

On Fri, 17 Sep 2004, Pavel Avgustinov wrote:

> 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. :-)
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> - P
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> Ganesh Sittampalam wrote:
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> >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.
> >
> >I'm away most of next week (back Friday morning, but maybe a bit
> >jetlagged..), but I should be online from the conference.
> >
> >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
> >
> >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
> >
> >We could also make up our own category(s) if we want.
> >
> >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.
> >
> >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.
> >
> >Ganesh
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Received on Fri Sep 17 21:38:36 2004