Re: Rewriting as a means for translating

hbaker@netcom.com (Henry G. Baker) writes:
> In my experience, the idea of source-to-source translation by means of
> a simple rewriting system is always a loser. No matter how close the
> languages seem, there are always significant "gotchas".


I agree with you, but how do you find the idea of Terence Parr to use
a high-level specification of tree transformations?


It's described in his paper ``An Overview of SORCERER: A Simple
Tree-Parser Generator.''
        Available by anonymous ftp from the PCCTS archive
marvin.ecn.purdue.edu:/pub/pccts. European folks might want to use the
mirror at
ftp.th-darmstadt.de:/pub/programming/languages/compiler-compiler/pccts.


At least, I'm still waiting for the release of the SORCERER source...


Joachim
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Joachim Schrod Email: schrod@iti.informatik.th-darmstadt.de
Computer Science Department
Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany
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