Home People Research Publications Software UW Cecil Group : Home The University of Washington Cecil group focuses primarily on constructing practical programming systems (languages, implementations, and environments) that will make large applications and systems programs easier to write and extend. The effectiveness of a programming system is determined in large part by the extent to which: The ...

Cecil 0. Intended Use Cecil is an object-oriented language intended for both exploratory and production programming. 1. Basic Concepts Cecil is based on a pure object model. All data are objects, and objects are manipulated soley by passing messages. Cecil uses a classless (prototype-based) object model, in which (conceptually) self-sufficient objects implement data abstractions, and objects ...