Extending Languages by Leveraging Compilers: from Modelica to Optimica

Summary, in English

Combining attribute grammars with object-oriented programming supports a new kind of declarative programming, allowing compilers to be built in a highly extensible manner. By leveraging a base compiler, extended languages can be supported at a relatively low cost. Recent work shows the applicability of the technique to general-purpose programming languages like Java. In this article, we illustrate the approach using a case study for domain-specific languages: An extensible compiler was built for the physical systems modeling language Modelica, and leveraged to support a new extended language, Optimica.

• Författare: Görel Hedin; Johan Åkesson; Torbjörn Ekman
• Avdelning/ar: Institutionen för datavetenskap; Institutionen för reglerteknik; ELLIIT: the Linköping-Lund initiative on IT and mobile communication; Programvaruteknik
• Publiceringsår: 2011
• Språk: Engelska
• Sidor: 68-74
• Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie: IEEE Software
• Volym: 28
• Issue: 3
• Länkar: http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/MS.2010.62
• Dokumenttyp: Artikel i tidskrift
• Förlag: IEEE - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
• Ämne: Computer Science; Control Engineering
• Status: Published
• Projekt: Embedded Applications Software Engineering
• Forskningsgrupp: LCCC
• ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt: ISSN: 0740-7459