Implementation of an A+ Interpreter for .NET

Péter Gál, Ákos Kiss

2012

Abstract

In this paper, we introduce a clean room implementation of an A+ interpreter for the .NET platform. Our goal was to allow interoperability between A+ and .NET programs, thus unlocking existing routines to .NET developers and making .NET class libraries available to A+ developers. In a preliminary experiment, we made the advantage of interoperability visible: we achieved a 5-fold speedup by calling .NET methods from an A+ script. Additionally, we have also shown how to use A+ as an embedded domain-specific language in C# code.

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Gál P. and Kiss Á. (2012). Implementation of an A+ Interpreter for .NET . In Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Software Paradigm Trends - Volume 1: ICSOFT, ISBN 978-989-8565-19-8, pages 297-302. DOI: 10.5220/0004129202970302


in Bibtex Style

@conference{icsoft12,
author={Péter Gál and Ákos Kiss},
title={Implementation of an A+ Interpreter for .NET},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Software Paradigm Trends - Volume 1: ICSOFT,},
year={2012},
pages={297-302},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0004129202970302},
isbn={978-989-8565-19-8},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Software Paradigm Trends - Volume 1: ICSOFT,
TI - Implementation of an A+ Interpreter for .NET
SN - 978-989-8565-19-8
AU - Gál P.
AU - Kiss Á.
PY - 2012
SP - 297
EP - 302
DO - 10.5220/0004129202970302