Title
Deriving fluent internal domain-specific languages from grammars.
Abstract
A prime decision of engineering domain-specific languages (DSLs) is implementing these as external DSLs or internal DSLs. Agile language engineering benefits from easily switching between both shapes to provide rapidly developed prototypes before settling on a specific syntax. This switching, however, is rarely feasible due to the effort of re-implementing language tooling for both shapes. Current research in software language engineering focuses either on internal DSLs or external DSLs. We conceived a concept to automatically derive customizable internal DSLs from grammars that operate on the same abstract syntax as the external DSL. This supports reusing tooling (such as model checkers or code generators) between both shapes. We realized our concept with the MontiCore language workbench and Groovy as host language for internal DSLs. This concept is applicable to many grammar-based language definition
Year
DOI
Venue
2018
10.1145/3276604.3276621
SLE '18: 11th ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Software Language Engineering Boston MA USA November, 2018
Keywords
Field
DocType
External DSLs, Internal DSLs, Grammarware
Domain-specific language,Rule-based machine translation,Programming language,Computer science,Digital subscriber line,Reuse,Grammar,Agile software development,Abstract syntax,Syntax
Conference
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
978-1-4503-6029-6
1
0.34
References 
Authors
0
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Arvid Butting1113.18
Manuela Dalibor262.15
Gerrit Leonhardt310.34
Bernhard Rumpe42691313.45
Andreas Wortmann516330.41