Assignment 5

Reading

Read the following two papers and write a short summary (0.5 pages for each):

• Metaobject Protocols: Why We Want Them and What Else They Can Do.
  Kiczales et al 1993
• First-class Runtime Generation of High-performance Types using Exotypes.
  DeVito et al. 2014

Your summary should identify the main insights and scientific contribution of the paper: what is the key idea? what is possible after the paper came out that wasn't possible before? (It is a good idea to skim some of the related work to answer these questions).

Here is some additional advice, by Kathryn S McKinley (thanks to Keith Chapman for the link).

Summaries are due before midnight on Saturday, Oct 11 (submit per email to the instructor).