Felleisen, Matthias2009-06-042009-06-042001Krishnamurthi, Shriram. "Linguistic reuse." (2001) Diss., Rice University. <a href="https://hdl.handle.net/1911/17993">https://hdl.handle.net/1911/17993</a>.https://hdl.handle.net/1911/17993Programmers employ a multitude of languages to build systems. Some are general-purpose languages. Others are specific to individual domains. These assist programmers with at least three different tasks: domain modeling, system validation and representing the structure of their general purpose program. As a result, programming languages have become key factors in the software engineering process. They are, however, rarely codified into the process and treated systematically. My dissertation develops a framework to treat programming languages as software engineering artifacts. In this framework, languages are identifiable, reusable entities that programmers can compose and link to produce larger languages; furthermore, languages themselves meet the properties of software components. Programmers can augment this lateral growth of languages with vertical growth, by producing languages that synthesize languages. Thus, software construction becomes a multi-phase process. In later phases, programmers use languages to build programs; in earlier phases, they employ languages to construct languages. This treatment of languages as artifacts addresses several open questions.110 p.application/pdfengCopyright is held by the author, unless otherwise indicated. Permission to reuse, publish, or reproduce the work beyond the bounds of fair use or other exemptions to copyright law must be obtained from the copyright holder.Computer scienceThesisTHESIS COMP.SCI. 2001 KRISHNAMURTHI