szymans@utecfa.UUCP (Ted Szymanski) (07/17/86)
TXL: A Rapid Prototyping Tool for Programming Language Design
By Charles Halpern
Room GB 221
Time : 12:05
Date: Friday, July 18th, 1986
Abstract
TXL, the Turing Extender Language, is used to create
preprocessors that implement extended dialects of Turing. A
TXL program consists of two parts. An extended dialect pro-
gram is parsed according to BNF-style syntax definitions.
Programming-by-example rules say how to replace new con-
structs with equivalent standard dialect code. The existing
Turing processor then accepts the standard Turing output of
the preprocessor.