Language Prototyping: An Algebraic Specification Approach

Download or read book Language Prototyping: An Algebraic Specification Approach written by Jan Heering and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 1996-09-30 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Language prototyping provides a means to generate language implementations automatically from high-level language definitions. This volume presents an algebraic specification approach to language prototyping, and is centered around the ASF+SDF formalism and Meta-Environment. The volume is an integrated collection of articles covering a number of case studies, and includes several chapters proposing new techniques for deriving advanced language implementations. The accompanying software is freely available.