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Extempore

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Extempore is a programming language and runtime environment designed to support 'cyberphysical programming'. Cyberphysical programming supports the notion of a human programmer operating as an active agent in a real-time distributed network of environmentally aware systems. The programmer interacts with the distributed real-time system procedurally by modifying code on-the-fly.

Extempore provides a completely hotswappable runtime environment with a strong temporal semantics, a flexible concurrency architecture, builtin support for distributed heterogenous operation (both OS and Architecture), and aims to provide flexible compiler-as-a-service functionality. Extempore makes extensive use of the LLVM project to provide back-end code generation.

Central to the Extempore programming environment is a new systems programming language designed to support the programming of real-time systems in real-time. xtlang is designed to mix the high-level expressiveness of Lisp with the low-level expressiveness of C.

xtlang uses an s-expression syntax common to Lisp, and more particularly to Scheme. xtlang also borrows many Lisp like semantics including first class closures, tail recursion and macros. However, xtlang also borrows heavily from systems languages like 'C' including static typing, low-level type expressivity, direct pointer manipulation and explicit memory managment (i.e. no GC). xtlang then extends these 'C' semantics with type-inferencing, ad-hoc polymorphism, reified generics, and zone/region based memory management.

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Publications

Rittenbruch, M., Sorensen, A., Donovan, J., Polson, D., Docherty, M. & Jones, J. (2013). The Cube : a very largescale interactive engagement space. Paper presented at Proceedings of the 2013 ACM International Conference on Interactive Tabletops and Surfaces (ITS’13). Retrieved from http://eprints.qut.edu.au/61900/6/61900b.pdf

Research areas

programming

Cite this collection

Rittenbruch, Markus; Sorensen , Anne; Donovan, Jared; Polson, Debra; Docherty, Michael; Jones, Jeff (2019): Extempore . Queensland University of Technology. (Service) https://doi.org/10.25912/5d3a893784aa3

Related information

ComputeMusic(now) Andrew Sorensen at TEDxQUT http://goo.gl/zqGCP5
Extempore Website http://extempore.moso.com.au/

Licence


Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 (CC-BY-NC)
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/

Copyright

Copyright (c) 2011-2013, Andrew Sorensen

Data file types

Programming environment

Dates of development

From 2011-01-01 to 2013-12-31

Connections

Is managed by
Andrew Sorensen   (Researcher)

Contacts

Phone: +61 7 3138 0452

Other

Date record created:
2014-05-20T15:42:25
Date record modified:
2020-08-05T15:45:01
Record status:
Published - Open Access