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Magic Potion: Incorporating New Development Paradigms through Metaprogramming
September/October 2010 (vol. 27 no. 5)
pp. 38-44
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Dragan Djuric, Vladan Devedzic, "Magic Potion: Incorporating New Development Paradigms through Metaprogramming," IEEE Software, vol. 27, no. 5, pp. 38-44, September/October, 2010.
 
 
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@article{ 10.1109/MS.2010.90,
author = {Dragan Djuric and Vladan Devedzic},
title = {Magic Potion: Incorporating New Development Paradigms through Metaprogramming},
journal ={IEEE Software},
volume = {27},
number = {5},
issn = {0740-7459},
year = {2010},
pages = {38-44},
doi = {http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/MS.2010.90},
publisher = {IEEE Computer Society},
address = {Los Alamitos, CA, USA},
}
 
 
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JO - IEEE Software
TI - Magic Potion: Incorporating New Development Paradigms through Metaprogramming
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KW - programming paradigms
KW - multiparadigm languages
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KW - programming languages
KW - domain engineering
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Dragan Djuric, University of Belgrade, Serbia
Vladan Devedzic, University of Belgrade, Belgrade
Today's applications require mixing and matching languages, platforms, and paradigms, which increases a solution's complexity. The authors propose a lighter approach that borrows a desired paradigm and incorporates it as an integral part of a preferred development environment. They've applied metaprogramming to internalize the ontology-modeling paradigm into a programming environment that's based on the Java ecosystem. Their method is also lightweight and suitable for small teams. They implemented an embedded domain-specific metalanguage, called Magic Potion, in the Clojure development environment, where it blends ontology, functional, object-oriented, and concurrent paradigms.

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Index Terms:
programming paradigms, multiparadigm languages, ontology languages, metaprogramming, domain-specific languages, programming languages, domain engineering, programming techniques
Citation:
Dragan Djuric, Vladan Devedzic, "Magic Potion: Incorporating New Development Paradigms through Metaprogramming," IEEE Software, vol. 27, no. 5, pp. 38-44, Sep./Oct. 2010, doi:10.1109/MS.2010.90
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