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Scala is a new programming language developed at EPFL and incorporating the most important concepts of object-oriented and functional languages. It aims at integrating well with the Java and .NET platforms: their respective libraries are accessible without ...
Compile-time metaprogramming has been proven immensely useful enabling programming techniques such as language virtualization, embedding of external DSLs, self-optimization, and boilerplate generation amongst many others. In the recent production release o ...
New extensions to programming languages are constantly being proposed. But implementing these extensions usually turns out to be a very difficult and expensive task, since conventional compilers often lack extensibility and reusability. In this paper we pr ...
