Software Language Evolution

Sander Vermolen
2008 2008 15th Working Conference on Reverse Engineering  
If you would ask me to summarize this dissertation in one word, it would neither be software, nor language, nor evolution. It would be change. Change is a bit of a funny thing. It is often neglected, often ignored and generally opposed against in whatever way possible. But change is also the trigger for new thoughts and ideas, it is the driving factor of economic growth, it is the thing that makes tomorrow different from today. Some like it, some don't. But sooner or later it will happen.
more » ... is inevitable. Partially due to rapid development, partially due to the ease of adaptation, change is prominent in computer science. I spend four years researching change in computer science. Four years of my life that did not go as smoothly as most of you might know. Nevertheless, the research went well and I am proud of the result: the book you are holding in your hands. By now, I changed my career path to industry. I even -more or lesschanged my field of work to what some of my PhD colleagues would consider the dark side (physics). But fear not, change drives new ideas and insights and can most of all be highly enjoyable. And for those that do not like change, some things are still the same: I still work with models, they still change all the time and their change still rises the same issues as the ones addressed in the following chapters. v Contents
doi:10.1109/wcre.2008.42 dblp:conf/wcre/Vermolen08 fatcat:vyuzokkpebbvpazfqug5zonkle