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SDE 3 Proceedings of the third ACM SIGSOFT/SIGPLAN software engineering symposium on Practical software development environments
The syntax definition formalism SDF—reference manual—
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A meta-environment for generating programming environments
ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM)
Syntax-directed editing environments: issues and features
SAC '93 Proceedings of the 1993 ACM/SIGAPP symposium on Applied computing: states of the art and practice
SDE 1 Proceedings of the first ACM SIGSOFT/SIGPLAN software engineering symposium on Practical software development environments
Should program editors not abandon text oriented commands?
ACM SIGPLAN Notices
Program editors should not abandon text oriented commands
ACM SIGPLAN Notices
Enforcing strict model-view separation in template engines
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Proceedings of the 21st annual ACM SIGPLAN conference on Object-oriented programming systems, languages, and applications
MontiCore: a framework for the development of textual domain specific languages
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Invertible syntax descriptions: unifying parsing and pretty printing
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The spoofax language workbench: rules for declarative specification of languages and IDEs
Proceedings of the ACM international conference on Object oriented programming systems languages and applications
Declaratively programming the mobile web with Mobl
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Syntax discoverability has been a crucial advantage of structure editors for new users of a language. Despite this advantage, structure editors have not been widely adopted. Based on immediate parsing and analyses, modern textual code editors are also increasingly syntax-aware: structure and textual editors are converging into a new editing paradigm that combines text and templates. Current text-based language workbenches require redundant specification of the ingredients for a template-based editor, which is detrimental to the quality of syntactic completion, as consistency and completeness of the definition cannot be guaranteed. In this paper we describe the design and implementation of a specification language for syntax definition based on templates. It unifies the specification of parsers, unparsers and template-based editors. We evaluate the template language by application to two domain-specific languages used for tax benefits and mobile applications.