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Towards a Unified View of Modeling and Programming (ISoLA 2018 Track Introduction)

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Leveraging Applications of Formal Methods, Verification and Validation. Modeling (ISoLA 2018)

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The article provides an introduction to the track: Towards a Unified View of Modeling and Programming, organized by the authors of this paper as part of ISoLA 2018: the 8th International Symposium On Leveraging Applications of Formal Methods, Verification and Validation. A total of 19 researchers presented their views on the two questions: what are the commonalities between modeling and programming languages?, and should we strive towards a unified view of modeling and programming? The idea behind the track, which is a continuation of a similar track at ISoLA 2016, emerged as a result of experiences gathered in the three fields: formal methods, model-based software engineering, and programming languages, and from the observation that these technologies share a large common part, to the extent where one may ask, does the following equation hold:

$$ modeling = programming $$

The research performed by this author was carried out at Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, under a contract with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.

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    Which are very popular in practice, as “pictures are (often) worth a thousand words”.

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    The difference between internal and external DSLs can be sketched as follows: an internal DSL is added (e.g. via API functionality) to a host language, which is usually a general-purpose programming language, while an external DSL comes with its own syntax that is completely independent of already existing languages.

  3. 3.

    Design languages are essentially DSLs, as discussed in Sect. 4.

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Broy, M., Havelund, K., Kumar, R., Steffen, B. (2018). Towards a Unified View of Modeling and Programming (ISoLA 2018 Track Introduction). In: Margaria, T., Steffen, B. (eds) Leveraging Applications of Formal Methods, Verification and Validation. Modeling. ISoLA 2018. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 11244. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-03418-4_1

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