GENESIS: A Language for Describing the Development of Programs.

Abstract

A language, named GENESIS, is proposed for describing the program development process and bootstrapped programs in particular. It is concise (a seven line grammar) and general. The report contains syntax, semantics, examples and an approach to a formal semantics for the language. (Author)

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Feb 01, 1978
Accession Number
ADA054282

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  • W. B. Tyler
  • W. M. Mckeeman

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  • University of California, Santa Cruz

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  • Computer science

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  • Computational Linguistics