KSL: a reflective object-oriented programming language

Author

Ibrahim, Mamdouh H. ; Cummins, Fred A.

Author_Institution

Electron. Data Syst. Corp., Troy, MI, USA

fYear

1988

fDate

9-13 Oct. 1988

Firstpage

186

Lastpage

193

Abstract

KSL (Knowledge Specification Language) is an object-oriented programming language that supports data abstraction, inheritance, and message-sending. KSL is also fully reflective, as a result of representing all of the language constructs as objects. Reflectivity allows the object paradigm to be applied to: the development, analysis, and translation of KSL; the extension of KSL to implement additional programming paradigms; and the development of applications that modify themselves. The authors provide an overview of KSL, its object representation, and how its reflectivity is achieved.<>

Keywords

data structures; object-oriented programming; specification languages; KSL overview; Knowledge Specification Language; data abstraction; inheritance; language constructs; message-sending; object paradigm; object representation; programming paradigms; reflective object-oriented programming language; reflectivity; Adaptive algorithm; Data systems; Expert systems; Knowledge acquisition; OWL; Object oriented modeling; Object oriented programming; Reflectivity; Research and development; Specification languages;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computer Languages, 1988. Proceedings., International Conference on

Conference_Location

Miami Beach, FL, USA

Print_ISBN

0-8186-0874-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICCL.1988.13063

Filename

13063