Language description for front end implementation

Authors:
Anya Helene Bagge
Affiliations:
University of Bergen, Norway
Venue:
Proceedings of the Tenth Workshop on Language Descriptions, Tools and Applications
Year:
2010

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Abstract

For a language to be useful, it requires a robust and reliable implementation. Writing and maintaining such an implementation is a hard task, particularly for experimental or domain-specific language projects where resources are limited. This paper describes an implementation approach based on modular specifications of syntax and static semantics. Specification is done in a language description DSL, which serves both as a specification, and as code from which compiler front ends can be automatically generated.