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Hyper-Code Revisited: Unifying Program Source, Executable, and Data

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Persistent Object Systems: Design, Implementation, and Use (POS 2000)

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The technique of hyper-programming allows program representations held in a persistent store to contain embedded links to persistent code and data. In 1994, Connor et al proposed extending this to hyper-code, in which program source, executable code and data are all represented to the user in exactly the same form. Here we explore the concept of hyper-code in greater detail and present a set of abstract language-independent operations on which various concrete systems can be based. These operations (explode, implode, evaluate, root and edit) are provided by a single user interface tool that subsumes the functions of both an object browser and a program editor. We then describe a particular implementation using PJama (persistent Java) and examine the impact of several language features on the resulting system.

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  1. School of Computer Science, University of St Andrews, North Haugh, St Andrews, Fife, KY16 9SS, Scotland

    E. Zirintsis, Graham N. C. Kirby & Ron Morrison

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  1. School of Computer Science, University of St. Andrews, North Haugh, St. Andrews, Fife, KY16 9SS, UK

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  2. Simula Research Laboratory, P.O. Box 1080, Blindern, 0316, Oslo, Norway

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Zirintsis, E., Kirby, G.N.C., Morrison, R. (2001). Hyper-Code Revisited: Unifying Program Source, Executable, and Data. In: Kirby, G.N.C., Dearle, A., Sjøberg, D.I.K. (eds) Persistent Object Systems: Design, Implementation, and Use. POS 2000. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2135. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-45498-5_21

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