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From: seibel@cgl.ucsf.edu (George Seibel)
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Subject: Re: Flexible Prettyprinters, an example...
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Date: 26 May 88 07:26:59 GMT
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In article <1420008@hpldola.HP.COM> winter@hpldola.HP.COM (Kirt Winter) writes:
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>
>Flexible prettyprinters are avalable for some languages.  One exists for
>LISP, but uses "deformat" statements for each user-defined feature, not
>anything approaching the "learn by example" method.  One exists for the
>Logitech Modula II compiler (and is included with the package), which takes
>one sample file, modified by the user, and "learns" from that.  Ones for
>C are probably on the horizon.

Here's one for FORTRAN. (yeah, I know, why would a FoRtRaN programmer
be reading comp.software-eng?!)  Pretty-printing is one of the functions
of TOOLPACK, along with a macro processor, global inter-procedural analysis,
coverage analysis, and other nice things.  It doesn't use the "learn by
example" model, rather it uses a "configuration file" scheme - which
seems a lot simpler to me.  Each user might customize their own config
file to produce whatever whacko style they liked.  

TOOLPACK is public domain software developed at the U of Colorado,
Argonne National Labs, JPL, Bell Labs, Purdue, Numerical Algorithms Group,
and other sites.   

For distribution, contact Integrated Systems Technologies at (312)869-
7820 or the Numerical Algorithms Group (usa 312-971-2337 or uk oxford
(0865)511245 international +44865 511245).

also see refs IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering SE-9
                 #6 Nov 83 P 673.  L.J. Osterweil
              ACM Transactions on Mathematical Software vol 12
                 p324-353 Cowell,Thompson
              Unix Shell scripts to invoke a set of Toolpack/1 tools
                 Technical Memorandum ANL/MCS-TM-77 ANL,86.

George Seibel, UCSF  seibel@cgl.ucsf.edu