Reflection and Hyper-Programming in Persistent Programming Systems (1992)
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@MISC{Kirby92reflectionand,
author = {Graham N. C. Kirby},
title = {Reflection and Hyper-Programming in Persistent Programming Systems},
year = {1992}
}
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Abstract
In an orthogonally persistent programming system, data is treated in a manner independent of its persistence. This gives simpler semantics, allows the programmer to ignore details of long-term data storage and enables type checking protection mechanisms to operate over the entire lifetime of the data. The ultimate goal of persistent programming language research is to reduce the costs of producing software. The work presented in this thesis seeks to improve programmer productivity in the following ways: . by reducing the amount of code that has to be written to construct an application; . by increasing the reliability of the code written; and . by improving the programmer's understanding of the persistent environment in which applications are constructed. Two programming techniques that may be used to pursue these goals in a persistent environment are type-safe linguistic reflection and hyper-programming. The first provides a mechanism by which the programmer can write generators that,...
