Applying Data-driven Tool Development to Context-oriented Languages

Abstract

There are numerous implementations of context-oriented programming on host languages that come with graphical programming environments. However, comprehensive tool support is often missing because building and integrating graphical tools is still laborious; many programmers cannot afford to be both tool user and tool builder. We present a novel, data-driven approach on programming tools to alleviate this problem. We implemented a framework in Squeak/Smalltalk and show how programmers can use it to create and adapt integrated tools for ContextS2.