… Software linguistics is the science of software languages. In this short paper, we sketch the general discipline of software linguistics, but our focus is on one part of it: empirical analysis of software languages. Such analysis …

… requires the ability to rapidly develop software languages. However, a software language is a complex software system in its own right and can take significant … separation of concerns in language definition by designing high-level declarative meta …

… Domain-specific languages (DSLs) can be viewed from both a programming language and a software architecture perspective. The goal of this paper is to relate …) while expressing software architecture concerns. …

… utterances. Unfortunately, little is known about how software languages evolve … research questions: (1) What is the impact of language changes on related software … software maintenance activities, and most language changes can be captured by a small …

… By abstraction and factoring out domain specific knowledge, model driven engineering addresses the problem of increasing software complexity. Both models and meta models are generally subject to evolution, yet evolution of a meta model can …

… As most software artifacts, meta-models can evolve. Their evolution requires conforming models to co-evolve along with them. Coupled evolution supports … specific transformation language; a means of executing transformations at the top …

… In textual software languages, names are used to identify program elements …. In this poster, we present the Spoofax Name Binding Language (NBL), a declarative meta-language for the specification of name binding and scope rules, which departs …

… elements of our methodology may be useful for other software languages as well. …P3P is the policy language with which websites declare the intended use of data … or complexity metrics, different cloning levels, coverage of language constructs …