The spoofax language workbench: Rules for declarative specification of languages and IDEs

ACM SIGPLAN Notices

Volumn 45, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 444-463

  Kats, Lennart C L ^a   Visser, Eelco ^a  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGILE DEVELOPMENT; CODE GENERATION; DOMAIN SPECIFIC LANGUAGES; ECLIPSE ENVIRONMENT; HIGH LEVEL SPECIFICATION; LANGUAGE PROCESSING TECHNIQUES; LANGUAGE SEMANTICS; LANGUAGE WORKBENCHES; META PROGRAMMING; PARSER GENERATION; REWRITE RULES; SERVICE CLASS;

DYNAMIC LOADS; INTEGRODIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; PROBLEM ORIENTED LANGUAGES; SEMANTICS; SPECIFICATIONS; XML;

JAVA PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE;

EID: 79551667411     PISSN: 15232867     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/1932682.1869497     Document Type: Conference Paper

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