Book: Language Prototyping: An Algebraic Specification Approach

[Arie van Deursen <Arie.van.Deursen@cwi.nl>]

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                            Language Prototyping:

                    An Algebraic Specification Approach

             Arie van Deursen, Jan Heering, Paul Klint (editors)

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     Language prototyping means generating language implementations
     automatically from high-level language definitions. This volume
     presents an algebraic specification approach to language
     prototyping using the ASF+SDF formalism and meta-environment. Many
     examples of actual language definitions illustrating various
     definition styles are given. Furthermore, several new techniques
     for deriving language implementations are proposed. The
     accompanying software is available in the public domain.

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Using  WWW page at URL htpp://www.cwi.nl/~gipe/language_prototyping, 
you can take a look at the abstracts of the various chapters. 
The book itself was published in the AMAST Series in Computing
from World Scientific Publishing Co..

To order the book, contact one of the World Scientific offices, or send an
email message to worldscp@singnet.com.sg

When you buy the book, you will see that many chapters are in fact literate
specifications. When reading the chapters, you may wish to modify or extend
some of them. The links in the URL of the book include pointers to the full
ASF+SDF sources.
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Contents

   * Table of Contents (6 pp.)

   * Preface (7 pp.)

  1. An Overview of ASF+SDF (30 pp.)
     Arie van Deursen

  2. The Static Semantics of Pascal (24 pp.)
     Arie van Deursen

  3. A Kernel Object-Oriented Language (32 pp.)
     T. B. Dinesh

  4. Typechecking: Modular Error Handling (22 pp.)
     T.B. Dinesh

  5. Multi-Level Specifications (94 pp.)
     Eelco Visser

  6. Incremental Type Checking (50 pp.)
     Emma van der Meulen

  7. Origin tracking and its Applications (45 pp.)
     Arie van Deursen, Paul Klint, and Frank Tip

  8. Second-Order Term Rewriting Specification of Static Semantics: An
     Excercise (12 pp.)
     Jan Heering

  9. Origin Tracking for Higher-Order Term Rewriting Systems (14 pp.)
     Arie van Deursen and T. B. Dinesh

   * References (20 pp.)

   * Index (10 pp.)

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Places to look for more information:
http://singnet.com.sg/~wspclib/Books/compsci/AMAST_series.html
http://www.cwi.nl/~gipe/language_prototyping

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