BIGMAC II: A FORTRAN Language Augmentation Tool

Abstract

This paper describes the motivation, design, implementation, and some preliminary performance characteristics of BIGMAC, a macro definition capability for creating language enhancors and translators. BIGMAC enables the user to specify transformations through STREX, a FORTRAN-like language, which enables the specification of macros which are then used to interpretively alter incoming programs. BIGMAC is specially adapted to the processing of FORTRAN programs. This paper shows how it can be used as a deprocedurizer (or flattener), a dialect-to- dialect translator, a portability and version control aid, and a device for creating language enhancements as sophisticated as new control structures and abstract data types

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jul 01, 1980
Accession Number
ADA461204

Entities

People

  • Eugene W. Myers Jr.
  • Leon J. Osterweil

Organizations

  • University of Colorado Boulder

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DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Abstracts
  • Language
  • Motivation
  • Specifications
  • Translators

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

Readers

  • Computational Linguistics
  • Computer Science.