Langar: An Approach to Evaluate Reo Programming Language

TL;DR

Langar is a comprehensive framework and toolkit designed to evaluate the Reo coordination language from multiple perspectives, with potential applications to other languages and future research directions.

Contribution

This paper introduces Langar, a novel evaluation framework and toolkit specifically for assessing the Reo language's capabilities and applicability to other languages.

Findings

Developed a multi-perspective evaluation framework for Reo.

Created a versatile toolkit for language evaluation techniques.

Proposed future research directions for software engineering communities.

Abstract

Reo is a formal coordination language. In order to assess and evaluate its capabilities, we need a multi-perspective Language Evaluation Framework. Langar (Language Analysis for Reo) is a framework aimed to provide such an evaluation method. In this paper, we introduce Langar. Based on a review on various language evaluation methods, a tool-kit for useful evaluation techniques are provided. After Reo Evaluation, this method and tool-kit also could be used for another programming, computational and even natural languages. Furthermore, two suggestions for some future efforts and directions are provided for software engineering and software methodology communities.