Pi: a Pattern Language

@inproceedings{Knll2009PiAP,
  title={Pi: a Pattern Language},
  author={Roman Kn{\"o}ll and Mira Mezini},
  booktitle={OOPSLA},
  year={2009}
}
Current programming languages and techniques realize many features which allow their users to extend these languages on a semantic basis: classes, functions, interfaces, aspects and other entities can be defined. However, there is a lack of modern programming languages which are both semantically and syntactically extensible from within the language itself, i.e., with no additional tool or meta-language. In this paper we present π as an approach that aims to overcome this lack. π provides an… 
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