Scripting Language Open PROMOL and its Processor
Volume 11, Issue 1 (2000), pp. 71–86
Pub. online: 1 January 2000
Type: Research Article
Received
1 December 1999
1 December 1999
Published
1 January 2000
1 January 2000
Abstract
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 & 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.