Although object-oriented programming techniques have evolved into an accepted technology with recognized benefits for software development, profound investigations of qualitative a...
Previous studies have shown that object-oriented programs have different execution characteristics than procedural programs, and that special object-oriented hardware can improve p...
In this paper we investigate the addition of first-class relationships to a prototypical object-oriented programming language (a “middleweight” fragment of Java). We provide ...
Multiple dispatching provides increased expressive power over single dispatching by guiding method lookup using the values of all arguments instead of only the receiver. However, ...
The development of software engineering has had a great deal of benefits for the development of software. Along with it came a whole new paradigm of the way software is designed a...