Reuseware — Adding Modularity to Your Language of Choice.
Jakob Henriksson, Jendrik Johannes, Steffen Zschaler, Uwe Aßmann · The Journal of Object Technology · 2007
The trend towards domain-specific languages leads to an ever-growing plethora of highly specialized languages.Developers of such languages focus on their specific domains rather than on technical challenges of language design.Generic features of languages are rarely included in special-purpose languages.One very important feature is modularization, the ability to formulate partial programs in separate entities, composable into a complete program in a defined manner.This paper presents a generic approach for adding modularity to arbitrary languages, discussing the underlying concepts and presenting the Reuseware Composition Framework.We walk through an example based on Xcerpt, a Semantic Web query language.