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<!DOCTYPE article PUBLIC "-//NLM//DTD JATS (Z39.96) Journal Publishing DTD v1.0 20120330//EN" "JATS-journalpublishing1.dtd"><article xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" article-type="research-article"><front><journal-meta><journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">INFORMATICA</journal-id><journal-title-group><journal-title>Informatica</journal-title></journal-title-group><issn pub-type="epub">0868-4952</issn><issn pub-type="ppub">0868-4952</issn><publisher><publisher-name>VU</publisher-name></publisher></journal-meta><article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">INF11107</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.3233/INF-2000-11107</article-id><article-categories><subj-group subj-group-type="heading"><subject>Research article</subject></subj-group></article-categories><title-group><article-title>Scripting Language Open PROMOL and its Processor</article-title></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="Author"><name><surname>Štuikys</surname><given-names>Vytautas</given-names></name><email xlink:href="mailto:vystu@if.ktu.lt">vystu@if.ktu.lt</email><xref ref-type="aff" rid="j_INFORMATICA_aff_000"/></contrib><contrib contrib-type="Author"><name><surname>Damaševičius</surname><given-names>Robertas</given-names></name><email xlink:href="mailto:damarobe@soften.ktu.lt">damarobe@soften.ktu.lt</email><xref ref-type="aff" rid="j_INFORMATICA_aff_000"/></contrib><aff id="j_INFORMATICA_aff_000">Kaunas University of Technology, Studentų 50, 3031 Kaunas, Lithuania</aff></contrib-group><pub-date pub-type="epub"><day>01</day><month>01</month><year>2000</year></pub-date><volume>11</volume><issue>1</issue><fpage>71</fpage><lpage>86</lpage><history><date date-type="received"><day>01</day><month>12</month><year>1999</year></date></history><abstract><p>We present the capabilities of the scripting language Open PROMOL and its processor. The intention of the language is to pre-program specifications for modifying programs written in a target language. We use its processor either as a tool for developing the stand-alone reusable components or as a “component-from-the-shelf” in generative tools for generating domain specific programs. The processor itself uses the module (lexical analyser and parser) produced by Lex &amp; Yacc as a reusable component. We describe the generation, computation, control, parameterization and gluing capabilities of the language. We compare our approach with the similar approaches known in the literature.</p></abstract><kwd-group><label>Keywords</label><kwd>scripting language</kwd><kwd>target language</kwd><kwd>program modification</kwd><kwd>component-based reuse</kwd><kwd>generative reuse</kwd><kwd>VHDL</kwd><kwd>domain specific program</kwd></kwd-group></article-meta></front></article>