language parallax

Thanks to Justin for finding this post about the upcoming 1st annual Software Language Engineering conference. Co-Located with the MoDELS in Toulouse, France, in late September. I was already planning to submit something to MoDELS, but this looks a little more appropriate. Plus the later submission deadline will help. :)
Speaking of submissions, […]

On Thursday I spent my time at the OMG Symposium. Ed Merks was there and did a huge blog post about the talks, so he’s saved me a lot of wind! (Btw, I am almost completely occluded by Micheal Soden in the first of the two group pictures, but I promise I was […]

Hello from EclipseCon!

I arrived in time for the modeling BoF last night.
Afterwards I was able to ask Markus Voelter for a little bit of context about QVT-R(elations). Why doesn’t it get used more. The first two objections are 1) that there are no production-ready implementations, and 2) that it’s a difficult language to […]

I’ve been successful enough getting some interesting behaviors implemented with XQuery that I haven’t been playing with ATL or QVT much lately. Eventually I’ll bring in one (hopefully QVT Relations). But I’m starting to wonder how long I’m going to live with a hybrid system.
Oh, and I went with Saxon’s implementation of XQuery […]