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Conference on Object Oriented Programming Systems Languages and Applications archive
Proceeding of the 24th ACM SIGPLAN conference on Object oriented programming systems languages and applications table of contents

Orlando, Florida, USA

SESSION: Software tools and libraries table of contents

Pages 191-206

Year of Publication: 2009

ISBN:978-1-60558-766-0

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Philippe Charles	IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY, USA
Robert M. Fuhrer	IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY, USA
Stanley M. Sutton, Jr.	IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY, USA
Evelyn Duesterwald	IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY, USA
Jurgen Vinju	CWI, Amsterdam, Netherlands

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SIGPLAN: ACM Special Interest Group on Programming Languages

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ACM New York, NY, USA

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ABSTRACT

Full-featured integrated development environments have become critical to the adoption of new programming languages. Key to the success of these IDEs is the provision of services tailored to the languages. However, modern IDEs are large and complex, and the cost of constructing one from scratch can be prohibitive. Generators that work from language specifications reduce costs but produce environments that do not fully reflect distinctive language characteristics.

We believe that there is a practical middle ground between these extremes that can be effectively addressed by an open, semi-automated strategy to IDE development. This strategy is to reduce the burden of IDE development as much as possible, especially for internal IDE details, while opening opportunities for significant customizations to IDE services. To reduce the effort needed for customization we provide a combination of frameworks, templates, and generators. We demonstrate an extensible IDE architecture that embodies this strategy, and we show that this architecture can be used to produce customized IDEs, with a moderate amount of effort, for a variety of interesting languages.

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