Development, Assessment, and Reengineering of Language Descriptions

DOI 10.1109/ase.1998.732688 dblp

Abstract

Discusses tools that aid in the development, assessment and reengineering of language descriptions (i.e. syntactic descriptions of a language). We develop assessment tools that give an indication as to what is wrong with an existing language description, and give hints towards its correction. From a correct and complete language description, it is possible to generate a parser, a manual and online documentation. The parser is geared towards reengineering purposes, but is also used to parse the examples that are contained in the documentation. The reengineered language description is a basic ingredient for a reengineering factory that can manipulate this language. The described tool support can also be used to develop a language standard without syntax errors in the language description and its code examples.

BibTeX

@inproceedings{Sellink-Verhoef:ASE98,
  author    = {M. P. A. Sellink and
               Chris Verhoef},
  title     = {Development, Assessment, and Reengineering of Language Descriptions},
  booktitle = {ASE},
  pages     = {314--317},
  publisher = {{IEEE} Computer Society},
  year      = {1998},
}

Development, Assessment, and Reengineering of Language Descriptions

Abstract

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