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</p><p><b>Role-oriented programming</b> as a form of <a href="Programming_language" title="Programming language">computer programming</a> aims at expressing things in terms that are analogous to human <a href="Concept" title="Concept">conceptual</a> understanding of the <a href="World" title="World">world</a>. This should make programs easier to understand and maintain.
</p><p>The main idea of role-oriented programming is that humans think in terms of <a href="Role" title="Role">roles</a>. This claim is often backed up by examples of <a href="Social_relations" class="mw-redirect" title="Social relations">social relations</a>. For example, a student attending a class and the same student at a party are the same person, yet that person plays two different roles. In particular, the interactions of this person with the outside world depend on his current role. The roles typically share features, e.g., the intrinsic properties of being a person. This sharing of properties is often handled by the <a href="Delegation_(programming)" class="mw-redirect" title="Delegation (programming)">delegation</a> mechanism.
</p><p>In the older literature and in the field of <a href="Database" title="Database">databases</a>, it seems that there has been little consideration for the context in which roles interplay with each other. Such a context is being established in newer role- and <a href="Aspect-oriented_programming" title="Aspect-oriented programming">aspect-oriented programming</a> languages such as Object Teams. Compare the use of "role" as "a set of software programs (services) that enable a server to perform specific functions for users or computers on the network" in <a href="Windows_Server" title="Windows Server">Windows Server</a> jargon.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
</p><p>Many researchers have argued the advantages of roles in <a href="Computer_model" class="mw-redirect" title="Computer model">modeling</a> and implementation. Roles allow objects to evolve over time, they enable independent and <a href="Concurrency_(computer_science)" title="Concurrency (computer science)">concurrently</a> existing views (interfaces) of the object, explicating the different contexts of the object, and <a href="Separation_of_concerns" title="Separation of concerns"> separating concerns</a>. Generally roles are a natural element of human daily concept-forming. Roles in programming languages enable objects to have changing interfaces, as we see in <a href="Real_life" title="Real life">real life</a> - things change over time, are used differently in different contexts, etc.
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Authors_of_role_literature">Authors of role literature</h2></div>
<ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/~ley/db/indices/a-tree/p/Pernici%3ABarbara.html">Barbara Pernici</a></li>
<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.mip.sdu.dk/people/Staff/bbk.html">Bent Bruun Kristensen</a><sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li>
<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://existentialprogramming.blogspot.com/search/label/roles">Bruce Wallace</a></li>
<li><a href="Charles_Bachman" title="Charles Bachman">Charles Bachman</a><sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li>
<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.kbs.uni-hannover.de/~steimann/">Friedrich Steimann</a></li>
<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/~ley/db/indices/a-tree/g/Gottlob%3AGeorg.html">Georg Gottlob</a></li>
<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.itu.dk/people/kbilsted/">Kasper B. Graversen</a></li>
<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.itu.dk/people/kasper/">Kasper Østerbye</a></li>
<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/~ley/db/indices/a-tree/h/Herrmann%3AStephan.html">Stephan Herrmann</a></li>
<li><a href="Trygve_Reenskaug" title="Trygve Reenskaug">Trygve Reenskaug</a><sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li>
<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://wwwpub.zih.tu-dresden.de/~s4560758/">Thomas Kühn</a></li></ul>
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<ul><li><a href="Cameleon_(programming_language)" title="Cameleon (programming language)">Cameleon</a></li>
<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.eclipse.org/epsilon/">EpsilonJ</a></li>
<li><a href="JavaScript#Delegative" title="JavaScript">JavaScript Delegation - Functions as Roles (Traits and Mixins)</a></li>
<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.eclipse.org/objectteams">Object Teams</a></li>
<li><a href="Moose_(Perl)#Roles" title="Moose (Perl)">Perl (Moose)</a></li>
<li><a href="Raku_(programming_language)#Roles" title="Raku (programming language)">Raku</a></li>
<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1141277.1141606">powerJava</a></li>
<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://github.com/max-leuthaeuser/SCROLL">SCala ROLes Language</a></li></ul>
<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2></div>
<ul><li><a href="Aspect-oriented_programming" title="Aspect-oriented programming">Aspect-oriented programming</a></li>
<li><a href="Data%2C_context_and_interaction" title="Data, context and interaction">Data, context and interaction</a></li>
<li><a href="Object_Oriented_Role_Analysis_Method" class="mw-redirect" title="Object Oriented Role Analysis Method">Object Oriented Role Analysis Method</a></li>
<li><a href="Object-role_modeling" class="mw-redirect" title="Object-role modeling">Object-role modeling</a></li>
<li><a href="Subject_(programming)" class="mw-redirect" title="Subject (programming)">Subject (programming)</a></li>
<li><a href="Subject-oriented_programming" title="Subject-oriented programming">Subject-oriented programming</a></li>
<li><a href="Traits_(computer_science)" class="mw-redirect" title="Traits (computer science)">Traits (computer science)</a></li></ul>
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<ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20060910101027/http://ftp.ccs.neu.edu/pub/people/lieber/appcs.pdf">Adaptive Plug-and-Play Components for Evolutionary Software Development</a>, by Mira Mezini and Karl Lieberherr</li>
<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.iit.edu/~concur/asc/cassservices.html">Context Aspect Sensitive Services</a></li>
<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.itu.dk/people/kbilsted/graversen06thesis.pdf">Overview and taxonomy of Role languages</a></li>
<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/COOPIS.1999.792181">ROPE: Role Oriented Programming Environment for Multiagent Systems</a></li></ul>
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<ul><li><a href="Class-based_programming" title="Class-based programming">Class-based</a>, <a href="Prototype-based_programming" title="Prototype-based programming">Prototype-based</a>, <a href="Object-based_language" title="Object-based language">Object-based</a></li>
<li><a href="Agent-oriented_programming" title="Agent-oriented programming">Agent</a></li>
<li><a href="Immutable_object" title="Immutable object">Immutable object</a></li>
<li><a href="Persistent_programming_language" title="Persistent programming language">Persistent</a></li>
<li><a href="Uniform_function_call_syntax" title="Uniform function call syntax">Uniform function call syntax</a></li></ul>
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<ul><li><a href="Recursion_(computer_science)" title="Recursion (computer science)">Recursive</a></li>
<li><a href="Anonymous_function" title="Anonymous function">Anonymous function</a> (<a href="Partial_application" title="Partial application">Partial application</a>)</li>
<li><a href="Higher-order_programming" title="Higher-order programming">Higher-order</a></li>
<li><a href="Purely_functional_programming" title="Purely functional programming">Purely functional</a></li>
<li><a href="Total_functional_programming" title="Total functional programming">Total</a></li>
<li><a href="Strict_programming_language" title="Strict programming language">Strict</a></li>
<li><a href="Generalized_algebraic_data_type" title="Generalized algebraic data type">GADTs</a></li>
<li><a href="Dependent_type" title="Dependent type">Dependent types</a></li>
<li><a href="Functional_logic_programming" title="Functional logic programming">Functional logic</a></li>
<li><a href="Tacit_programming" title="Tacit programming">Point-free style</a></li>
<li><a href="Expression-oriented_programming_language" title="Expression-oriented programming language">Expression-oriented</a></li>
<li><a href="Applicative_programming_language" title="Applicative programming language">Applicative</a>, <a href="Concatenative_programming_language" title="Concatenative programming language">Concatenative</a></li>
<li><a href="Function-level_programming" title="Function-level programming">Function-level</a>, <a href="Value-level_programming" title="Value-level programming">Value-level</a></li></ul>
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<ul><li><a href="Flow-based_programming" title="Flow-based programming">Flow-based</a></li>
<li><a href="Reactive_programming" title="Reactive programming">Reactive</a> (<a href="Functional_reactive_programming" title="Functional reactive programming">Functional reactive</a>)</li>
<li><a href="Signal_programming" class="mw-redirect" title="Signal programming">Signals</a></li>
<li><a href="Stream_processing" title="Stream processing">Streams</a></li>
<li><a href="Synchronous_programming_language" title="Synchronous programming language">Synchronous</a></li></ul>
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<ul><li><a href="Abductive_logic_programming" title="Abductive logic programming">Abductive logic</a></li>
<li><a href="Answer_set_programming" title="Answer set programming">Answer set</a></li>
<li><a href="Constraint_programming" title="Constraint programming">Constraint</a> (<a href="Constraint_logic_programming" title="Constraint logic programming">Constraint logic</a>)</li>
<li><a href="Inductive_logic_programming" title="Inductive logic programming">Inductive logic</a></li>
<li><a href="Nondeterministic_programming" title="Nondeterministic programming">Nondeterministic</a></li>
<li><a href="Ontology_language" title="Ontology language">Ontology</a></li>
<li><a href="Probabilistic_logic_programming" title="Probabilistic logic programming">Probabilistic logic</a></li>
<li><a href="Query_language" title="Query language">Query</a></li></ul>
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<li><a href="Array_programming" title="Array programming">Array</a></li>
<li><a href="Automata-based_programming" title="Automata-based programming">Automata-based</a> (<a href="Action_language" title="Action language">Action</a>)</li>
<li><a href="Command_language" title="Command language">Command</a> (<a href="Spacecraft_command_language" title="Spacecraft command language">Spacecraft</a>)</li>
<li><a href="Differentiable_programming" title="Differentiable programming">Differentiable</a></li>
<li><a href="End-user_development" title="End-user development">End-user</a></li>
<li><a href="Grammar-oriented_programming" title="Grammar-oriented programming">Grammar-oriented</a></li>
<li><a href="Interface_description_language" title="Interface description language">Interface description</a></li>
<li><a href="Language-oriented_programming" title="Language-oriented programming">Language-oriented</a></li>
<li><a href="List_comprehension" title="List comprehension">List comprehension</a></li>
<li><a href="Low-code_development_platform" title="Low-code development platform">Low-code</a></li>
<li><a href="Modeling_language" title="Modeling language">Modeling</a></li>
<li><a href="Natural-language_programming" class="mw-redirect" title="Natural-language programming">Natural language</a></li>
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<li><a href="Probabilistic_programming" title="Probabilistic programming">Probabilistic</a></li>
<li><a href="Quantum_programming" title="Quantum programming">Quantum</a></li>
<li><a href="Scientific_programming_language" title="Scientific programming language">Scientific</a></li>
<li><a href="Scripting_language" title="Scripting language">Scripting</a></li>
<li><a href="Set_theoretic_programming" title="Set theoretic programming">Set-theoretic</a></li>
<li><a href="Simulation_language" title="Simulation language">Simulation</a></li>
<li><a href="Stack-oriented_programming" title="Stack-oriented programming">Stack-based</a></li>
<li><a href="System_programming_language" title="System programming language">System</a></li>
<li><a href="Tactile_programming_language" title="Tactile programming language">Tactile</a></li>
<li><a href="Template_processor" title="Template processor">Templating</a></li>
<li><a href="Transformation_language" title="Transformation language">Transformation</a> (<a href="Graph_rewriting" title="Graph rewriting">Graph rewriting</a>, <a href="Production_system_(computer_science)" title="Production system (computer science)">Production</a>, <a href="Pattern_matching" title="Pattern matching">Pattern</a>)</li>
<li><a href="Visual_programming_language" title="Visual programming language">Visual</a></li></ul>
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<ul><li><a href="Actor_model" title="Actor model">Actor-based</a></li>
<li><a href="Automatic_mutual_exclusion" title="Automatic mutual exclusion">Automatic mutual exclusion</a></li>
<li><a href="Choreographic_programming" title="Choreographic programming">Choreographic programming</a></li>
<li><a href="Concurrent_logic_programming" title="Concurrent logic programming">Concurrent logic</a> (<a href="Concurrent_constraint_logic_programming" title="Concurrent constraint logic programming">Concurrent constraint logic</a>)</li>
<li><a href="Concurrent_object-oriented_programming" title="Concurrent object-oriented programming">Concurrent OO</a></li>
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<li><a href="Multitier_programming" title="Multitier programming">Multitier programming</a></li>
<li><a href="Organic_computing" title="Organic computing">Organic computing</a></li>
<li><a href="Parallel_programming_model" title="Parallel programming model">Parallel programming models</a></li>
<li><a href="Partitioned_global_address_space" title="Partitioned global address space">Partitioned global address space</a></li>
<li><a href="Process-oriented_programming" title="Process-oriented programming">Process-oriented</a></li>
<li><a href="Relativistic_programming" title="Relativistic programming">Relativistic programming</a></li>
<li><a href="Service-oriented_programming" title="Service-oriented programming">Service-oriented</a></li>
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<ul><li><a href="Attribute-oriented_programming" title="Attribute-oriented programming">Attribute-oriented</a></li>
<li><a href="Automatic_programming" title="Automatic programming">Automatic</a> (<a href="Inductive_programming" title="Inductive programming">Inductive</a>)</li>
<li><a href="Dynamic_programming_language" title="Dynamic programming language">Dynamic</a></li>
<li><a href="Extensible_programming" title="Extensible programming">Extensible</a></li>
<li><a href="Generic_programming" title="Generic programming">Generic</a></li>
<li><a href="Homoiconicity" title="Homoiconicity">Homoiconicity</a></li>
<li><a href="Interactive_programming" title="Interactive programming">Interactive</a></li>
<li><a href="Macro_(computer_science)" title="Macro (computer science)">Macro</a> (<a href="Hygienic_macro" title="Hygienic macro">Hygienic</a>)</li>
<li><a href="Metalinguistic_abstraction" title="Metalinguistic abstraction">Metalinguistic abstraction</a></li>
<li><a href="Multi-stage_programming" title="Multi-stage programming">Multi-stage</a></li>
<li><a href="Program_synthesis" title="Program synthesis">Program synthesis</a> (<a href="Bayesian_program_synthesis" title="Bayesian program synthesis">Bayesian</a>, <a href="Inferential_programming" title="Inferential programming">Inferential</a>, <a href="Programming_by_demonstration" title="Programming by demonstration">by demonstration</a>, <a href="Programming_by_example" title="Programming by example">by example</a>)</li>
<li><a href="Reflective_programming" title="Reflective programming">Reflective</a></li>
<li><a href="Self-modifying_code" title="Self-modifying code">Self-modifying code</a></li>
<li><a href="Symbolic_programming" title="Symbolic programming">Symbolic</a></li>
<li><a href="Template_metaprogramming" title="Template metaprogramming">Template</a></li></ul>
</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="Separation_of_concerns" title="Separation of concerns">Separation<br>of concerns</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">
<ul><li><a href="Aspect-oriented_programming" title="Aspect-oriented programming">Aspects</a></li>
<li><a href="Component-based_software_engineering" title="Component-based software engineering">Components</a></li>
<li><a href="Data-driven_programming" title="Data-driven programming">Data-driven</a></li>
<li><a href="Data-oriented_design" title="Data-oriented design">Data-oriented</a></li>
<li><a href="Event-driven_programming" title="Event-driven programming">Event-driven</a></li>
<li><a href="Feature-oriented_programming" title="Feature-oriented programming">Features</a></li>
<li><a href="Literate_programming" title="Literate programming">Literate</a></li>

<li><a href="Subject-oriented_programming" title="Subject-oriented programming">Subjects</a></li></ul>
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