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Reference
Gray, D.N., Hotchkiss, J., LaForge, S., Shalit, A., Weinberg, T., "Modern languages and Microsoft's component object model", Communications of the ACM, 41, 5, pp. 55-65, May 1998. Google
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Topic: application generator (21 items)
Topic: object-oriented templates and containers (27 items)
Topic: language extension via macros (23 items)
Topic: function signature (21 items)
Topic: generic operations and polymorphism (65 items)
Topic: access to components of a data object (4 items)
Topic: variable as function that accesses an object's value (21 items)
Topic: macro syntax definition (10 items)