language parallax

When I was at OOPSLA ‘06 several months ago, I intended to check out the demo of MolhadoRef, but didn’t quite make it. The 2-page description of the system is here: MolhadoRef: A Refactoring-aware Software Configuration Management Tool
A quote from that paper:
To make a name-based refactoring engine behave like an ID-based one, our merging […]

I’m preparing to finally get started on what will eventually become a paper, a prospectus, and a chapter in the dissertation. Having decided that LOP, the “Language” pattern, and related ideas will form the core of this research, I have to start telling the story of how this stuff will be useful in practice […]