Accession Number:

ADA343303

Title:

Initial Suite of Small Language Definitions and Implementations for DSDL

Descriptive Note:

Corporate Author:

OREGON GRADUATE INST OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY PORTLAND PACIFIC SOFTWARE RESEARCH CENTER

Personal Author(s):

• Lewis, Jeffrey R.
• Launchbury, John

Report Date:

1998-04-22

Pagination or Media Count:

147.0

Abstract:

Domain specific languages are small, special purpose languages created to describe computational solutions in a particular problem domain. Domain specific languages have proven themselves useful many times over however, the cost of defining and implementing a domain specific language can be high. An approach that avoids the overhead of domain specific language definition is to define an embedded language i.e. a collection of definitions in a sufficiently expressive host language. Embedding a domain specific language places high demands on a host language. The host language must be able to express the essence of the domain, while not sacrificing too much in syntax. This report, presents a suite of seven examples of embeddings using the functional programming language Haskell.

Descriptors:

• *SOFTWARE ENGINEERING
• *PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES
• COMPUTERIZED SIMULATION
• MICROPROCESSORS
• COMPUTER LOGIC
• COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE
• COMPUTER GRAPHICS
• COMPILERS
• MACHINE CODING
• EXECUTIVE ROUTINES

Subject Categories:

• Computer Programming and Software

Distribution Statement:

APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE