Report Number: CS-TR-87-1159
Institution: Stanford University, Department of Computer Science
Title: Muir: A Tool for Language Design
Author: Winograd, Terry A.
Date: May 1987
Abstract: Muir is a language design environment, intended for use in creating and experimenting with languages such as programming languages, specification languages, grammar forrnalisms, and logical notations. It provides facilities for a language designer to create a language specification, which controls the behavior of generic language manipulating tools typically found in a language-specific environment, such as structure editors, interactive interfaces, storage management and attribute analysis. It is oriented towards use with evolving languages, providing for mixed structures (combining different versions), semi-automated updating of structures from one language version to another, and incremental language specification. A new hierarchical grammar formalism serves as the framework for language specification, with multiple presentation formalisms and a unified interactive environment based on an extended notion of edit operations. A prototype version is operating and has been tested on a small number of languages.
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