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The Road to Utopia: A Future for Generative Programming

2004; Springer Science+Business Media; Linguagem: Inglês

10.1007/978-3-540-25935-0_1

1611-3349

Don Batory,

Data Management and Algorithms

The future of software engineering lies in automation and will exploit the combined strengths of generative programming, domain-specific languages, and automatic programming. While each of these areas is still in its infancy, a spectacularly successful example of their combination was realized twenty-five years ago: relational query optimization. In this paper, I chart the successes and mindset used by database researchers to generate efficient query processing programs automatically. I argue that the road that they have so successfully followed is the same road that the generative programming, domain-specific languages, and automatic programming communities are now traversing.