The Synthesizer Generator Reference Manual (Paperback, 3rd ed. 1989)

The Synthesizer Generator is a system for automating the implementation of language-based editing environments. The editor designer prepares a specification that includes rules defining a language's context-free abstract syn tax, context-sensitive relationships, display format, and concrete input syntax. From this specification, the Synthesizer Generator creates a display editor for manipulating objects according to these rules [Reps84]. This volume, The Synthesizer Generator Reference Manual, is intended as the defining document of the system. A companion volume, The Synthesizer Gen erator: A System for Constructing Language-Based Editors [Reps88], provides a more tutorial description of the system; it contains numerous examples that illustrate the specification and use of generated editors, as well as chapters that explain important algorithms of the implementation. The Synthesizer Generator is a generalization of our earlier system, the Cor nell Program Synthesizer [Teitelbaum81], which was a programming environ ment for a specific small dialect of PL/I. It featured a display-oriented, syntax directed editor, an incremental compiler, an execution supervisor supporting source-level debugging, and a file system containing syntactically typed pro gram fragments. Whereas PL/I was built into the Cornell Program Synthesizer, the Synthesizer Generator accepts a formal language definition as input. Although originally conceived as a tool for creating Synthesizer-like environments for arbitrary pro gramming languages, the Synthesizer Generator is more broadly useful. Any textual language with a hierarchical phrase structure grammar is a candidate. vi Preface Interactive theorem proving for formal mathematics and logic, for example, has emerged as a particularly suitable application.

General

Imprint:	Springer-Verlag New York
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Monographs in Computer Science
Release date:	December 1988
First published:	1989
Authors:	Thomas W. Reps • Tim Teitelbaum
Dimensions:	235 x 155 x 10mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	171
Edition:	3rd ed. 1989
ISBN-13:	978-0-387-96910-7
Categories:	Books > Computing & IT > Computer programming > Programming languages > General
LSN:	0-387-96910-1
Barcode:	9780387969107

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