Developing integrated environments with ASDL

Author

Krämer, Bernd ; Schmidt, Heinz-Wilhelm

Author_Institution

Inst. for Syst., St. Augustin, West Germany

Volume

6

Issue

1

fYear

1989

Firstpage

98

Lastpage

107

Abstract

The authors present the Abstract-Type and Scheme-Definition Language (ASDL), a new formalism and environment kernel. The main goal of this object-oriented kernel is to reconcile integration and extensibility. ASDL adopts the ideas underlying language-based editor generators but overcomes their extensibility deficiencies. ASDL combines an object-oriented type system with syntax-directed translation schemes and a target-language interface. Its power lies in utilizing inheritance for structure-driven computations. The authors discuss object types, translation rules, and semantic information in ASDL.<>

Keywords

high level languages; object-oriented programming; specification languages; ASDL; Abstract-Type and Scheme-Definition Language; extensibility; inheritance; integration; language-based editor generators; object types; object-oriented kernel; semantic information; structure-driven computations; syntax-directed translation schemes; target-language interface; translation rules; Data structures; Equations; Formal specifications; Printing; Programming environments; Software prototyping; Spatial databases; Synthesizers; Tree data structures; Variable speed drives;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Software, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0740-7459

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/52.16907

Filename

16907