A system for generating language-oriented editors

Author

Tenma, Takao ; Tsubotani, Hideaki ; Tanaka, Minoru ; Ichikawa, Tadao

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., Hiroshima Univ., Japan

Volume

14

Issue

8

fYear

1988

fDate

8/1/1988 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

1098

Lastpage

1109

Abstract

The authors seek to establish a simple and flexible framework for internal representation of language-dependent information, and the behavior of language-oriented tools for user´s operations. They present a system for generating language-oriented editors based on object-oriented concepts. Features of the target language are represented as classes and their relations. A program is represented as an abstract syntax tree. Each node in the tree belongs to a node class. For generating more advanced editors, probes, internal-classes, and gates are incorporated into the system. The system generates a flexible and easily extendable language-oriented editor from a target language description in a highly modularized fashion by using the description language which the system provides

Keywords

application generators; data structures; software tools; text editing; abstract syntax tree; application generators; data structures; description language; language dependent data representation; language-oriented editors; language-oriented tools; object-oriented; software tools; target language description; Costs; Debugging; Probes; Productivity; Programming environments;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Software Engineering, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0098-5589

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/32.7620

Filename

7620