Everything about Extensible programming

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

1. Read the overview: Extensible programmingA 5-minute orientation
2. Skim a recent paper: Kokkos 3: Programming Model Extensions for the Exascale EraInfluential work since 2022
3. Pick up a classic book: Designing Software Synthesizer Plugins in C++The most-reprinted book on the subject
4. Read the landmark paper: Effective Extensible Programming: Unleashing Julia on GPUsCited 195 times
5. Go sideways: Seed7A closely related topic
6. Go sideways: IMP (programming language)A closely related topic

🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)

• Effective Extensible Programming: Unleashing Julia on GPUs

  Tim Besard, Christophe Foket, Bjorn De Sutter · 2019 · IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems · 195 citations

• BrainPy, a flexible, integrative, efficient, and extensible framework for general-purpose brain dynamics programming

  Chaoming Wang, Tianqiu Zhang, Xiaoyu Chen · 2023 · eLife · 51 citations

• LOC8: A Location Model and Extensible Framework for Programming with Location

  Graeme Stevenson, Juan Ye, Simon Dobson · 2010 · IEEE Pervasive Computing · 34 citations

• Extensible Programming for the 21st Century

  Gregory V. Wilson · 2004 · Queue · 16 citations

• Oto, a generic and extensible tool for marking programming assignments

  G. Tremblay, F. Guérin, A. Pons · 2007 · Software: Practice and Experience · 16 citations

• Kart-ON: An Extensible Paper Programming Strategy for Affordable Early Programming Education

  Alpay Sabuncuoglu, T. Metin Sezgin · 2022 · Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction · 13 citations

• AVal: an extensible attribute‐oriented programming validator for Java

  Carlos Noguera, Renaud Pawlak · 2007 · Journal of Software Maintenance and Evolution: Research and Practice · 12 citations

• A survey of extensible programming languages

  N Solntseff, A Yezerski · 1974 · Annual Review in Automatic Programming · 11 citations

🆕 Influential since 2022

• Kokkos 3: Programming Model Extensions for the Exascale Era

  Christian R. Trott, Damien Lebrun-Grandie, Daniel Arndt · 2022 · IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems · 491 citations

• Generic Programming with Extensible Data Types: Or, Making Ad Hoc Extensible Data Types Less Ad Hoc

  Alex Hubers, J. Garrett Morris · 2023 · Proceedings of the ACM on Programming Languages · 6 citations

• Gradient-bounded dynamic programming for submodular and concave extensible value functions with probabilistic performance guarantees

  Denis Lebedev, Paul Goulart, Kostas Margellos · 2022 · Automatica · 2 citations

• Logic Programming with Extensible Types

  Ivan Perez, Angel Herranz · 2026 · Electronic Proceedings in Theoretical Computer Science · 0 citations

• Extensible Tooling for Reactive Programming Based on Active Expressions.

  Stefan Ramson, Markus Brand, Jens Lincke · 2024 · The Journal of Object Technology · 0 citations

📚 Books worth reading

• Designing Software Synthesizer Plugins in C++Will C. Pirkle · 2014
• 📕Extension Innovation MethodChunyan Yang · 2018
• California Master Gardener HandbookDennis R. Pittenger · 2002
• Guide to extension trainingPeter Oakley, P. Oakley · 1985
• 📕Forestry extension & low power radioMelany Isabel Lamb · 1994
• 📕The Montana Cooperative Extension ServiceMerrill G. Burlingame, Edward J., Jr. Bell · 1984
• Bringing the arts into the libraryCarol Smallwood · 2013
• Statement of relationship between the Girl Scouts of the U.S.A. and the Federal Extension Service of the U.S. Department of AgricultureUnited States. Extension Service. Division of 4-H Club and YMW Programs · 1956

Ranked by number of editions on Open Library, a rough measure of how lasting a book is.

🔗 Related topics

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