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From: new@ee.udel.edu (Darren New)
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Subject: Re: improve world by dropping languages with ;
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In article <1991Feb23.233234.3480@m.cs.uiuc.edu> sane@cs.uiuc.edu (Aamod Sane) writes:
>Incidentally, I remember a paper in IEEESoftware I think where someone
>was making editors directly from the grammar specs. Any news about
>such things? Did'nt some of the Mac Pascal compilers used to do this?
>
>The next step was to be incremental compilation of the language in the 
>background.

Well, here's the biblio entry I have for the Cornell Synthesizer,
which takes an attributed grammar and generates a context-sensitive
editor for it.  I also use a compiler written in the synthesizer.
I don't know that it does any background work, but I think they are
working on it.

 
 @book{Reps87,
	 author = "T. Reps and T. Teitelbaum",
	 title = "The Synthesizer Generator Reference Manual",
	 publisher = "Deparment of Computer Science, Cornell University",
	 month = jul,
	 year = 1984
	 }


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