A PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE TO FACILITATE THE TRANSITION FROM RAPID PROTOTYPING TO EFFICIENT SOFTWARE PRODUCTION

Francisco Ortin, Daniel Zapico, Miguel Garcia

2010

Abstract

Dynamic languages are becoming increasingly popular for developing different kinds of applications, being rapid prototyping one of the scenarios where they are widely used. The dynamism offered by dynamic languages is, however, counteracted by two main limitations: no early type error detection and fewer opportunities for compiler optimizations. To obtain the benefits of both dynamically and statically typed languages, we have designed the StaDyn programming language to provide both approaches. Our language implementation keeps gathering type information at compile time, even when dynamic references are used. This type information is used to offer compile-time type error detection, direct interoperation between static and dynamic code, and better runtime performance. Following the Separation of Concerns principle, dynamically typed references can be easily turned into statically typed ones without changing the application source code, facilitating the transition from rapid prototyping to efficient software production. This paper describes the key techniques used in the implementation of StaDyn to obtain these benefits.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Ortin F., Zapico D. and Garcia M. (2010). A PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE TO FACILITATE THE TRANSITION FROM RAPID PROTOTYPING TO EFFICIENT SOFTWARE PRODUCTION . In Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Software and Data Technologies - Volume 2: ICSOFT, ISBN 978-989-8425-23-2, pages 40-50. DOI: 10.5220/0002978500400050

in Bibtex Style

@conference{icsoft10,
author={Francisco Ortin and Daniel Zapico and Miguel Garcia},
title={A PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE TO FACILITATE THE TRANSITION FROM RAPID PROTOTYPING TO EFFICIENT SOFTWARE PRODUCTION},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Software and Data Technologies - Volume 2: ICSOFT,},
year={2010},
pages={40-50},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0002978500400050},
isbn={978-989-8425-23-2},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Software and Data Technologies - Volume 2: ICSOFT,
TI - A PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE TO FACILITATE THE TRANSITION FROM RAPID PROTOTYPING TO EFFICIENT SOFTWARE PRODUCTION
SN - 978-989-8425-23-2
AU - Ortin F.
AU - Zapico D.
AU - Garcia M.
PY - 2010
SP - 40
EP - 50
DO - 10.5220/0002978500400050