NIC Series Volume 13:   Multiparadigm Programming with Object-Oriented Languages MPOOL 2002 - Proceedings - Jörg Striegnitz, Kei Davis, Yannis Smaragdakis (Editors)   Workshop MPOOL 2002, 11 June 2002, Malaga ISBN 3-00-009099-1 June 2002, 132 pages   PDF

This volume contains the proceedings of the International Workshop on Multiparadigm Programming (MPOOL'02), held in Malaga, Spain on June 11, 2002.

Although the idea of combining programming paradigms and languages goes back to the late sixties, when a lot of research effort was spent on the development and investigation of extensible programming languages, this approach has lost neither its importance, nor its elegance.

Programming languages and paradigms are thought models. Their distinguishing concepts have a great influence on how programmers approach the different stages of the software development process. With respect to software quality, it is therefore desirable to let the problem domain determine the choice of the programming paradigm. Especially for larger software projects, this implies the need for languages and tools that support the simultaneous use of different programming paradigms.

Today the object oriented programming paradigm is dominant and ubiquitously employed for design, implementation and even conceptualization and a huge set of tools has been developed and successfully applied over the last two decades. MPOOL tries to bring together people who are trying to build a bridge from OO-centered tools to a toolset that permits free choice of paradigms.

Last year's MPOOL gave evidence that there exists a larger community working in this emerging area. The extended diversity of topics of this year's workshop shows that there is an ongoing advance in programming languages, tools, concepts and methodologies to support multiparadigm programming.

One of the main goals of the workshop (and the reason of publishing this proceedings volume) is to promote and expose work that combines programming paradigms in the framework of OO languages. Building a consensus about the standard background work, the interesting problems, and the future directions is the way to form a community.