timm@runxtsa.runx.oz.au (Tim Menzies) (07/28/90)
I recently read on the net a reference to the Eiffel parsing library. What little I read seemed to be suggest that the Eiffel people are distributing something like a LISP "read table" in object form. I found this most interesting. I've long thougth that it would be easy to build a interactive specification environment if: o the "grammer" of the language was expressed at the business concept level o each "production" in the "grammer" was an object o each object supportted methods for specification, interpretation, and compilation into some lower-level delivery lanaguage (e.g. C). If the above was in an environment that had access to a re-usable library of user-interfacing code, then the whole thing could be WIMP/ WYSIWYG and quite cute. Can anyone tell me if this is anything like the Eiffel parsing classes? BTW, I am not an Eiffel programmer and I do not have access to an Eiffel system, so please reply in **ENGLISH** and not it pages and pages of Eiffel code. Thanx in advance, Tim Menzies timm@runxtsa.runx.oz.au