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International Conference on Functional Programming archive
Proceeding of the 13th ACM SIGPLAN international conference on Functional programming table of contents

Victoria, BC, Canada

SESSION: Session 4 table of contents

Pages 87-90

Year of Publication: 2008

ISBN:978-1-59593-919-7

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Author

Mark P. Jones

Portland State University, Portland, OR, USA

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ACM: Association for Computing Machinery
SIGPLAN: ACM Special Interest Group on Programming Languages

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ACM New York, NY, USA

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ABSTRACT

This paper describes our experience using a functional language, Haskell, to build an embedded, domain-specific language (DSL) for component configuration in large-scale, real-time, embedded systems. Prior to the introduction of the DSL, engineers would describe the steps needed to configure a particular system in a handwritten XML document. In this paper, we outline the application domain, give a brief overview of the DSL that we developed, and provide concrete data to demonstrate its effectiveness. In particular, we show that the DSL has several significant benefits over the original, XML-based approach including reduced code size, increased modularity and scalability, and detection and prevention of common defects. For example, using the DSL, we were able to produce clear and intuitive descriptions of component configurations that were sometimes less than 1/30 of the size of the original XML.

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	1	Black Andrew P. , Carlsson Magnus , Jones Mark P. , Kieburtz Richard , Nordlander Johan, Timber: A Programming Language for Real-Time Embedded Systems, Oregon Graduate Institute School of Science & Engineering, 2002
	2	Paul Hudak, Building domain-specific embedded languages, ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR), v.28 n.4es, Dec. 1996 [doi>10.1145/242224.242477]
	3	Johan Nordlander. Reactive Objects and Functional Programming. Ph.D. thesis, Dept. of Computing Science, Chalmers University of Technology, Göteborg, Sweden, 1999.
	4	Johan Nordlander, Mark Jones, Magnus Carlsson, Dick Kieburtz, and Andrew Black. Reactive Objects. In Proceedings of the Fifth IEEE International Symposium on Object-Oriented Real-Time Distributed Computing (ISORC 2002), Arlington, VA, 2002.