{"product_id":"synthesizer-generator-reference-manual-book-thomas-w-reps-9780387969107","title":"The Synthesizer Generator Reference Manual","description":"The Synthesizer Generator is a system for automating the implementation of language-based editing environments. The editor designer prepares a specification that includes rules defining a language's context-free abstract syn­ tax, context-sensitive relationships, display format, and concrete input syntax. From this specification, the Synthesizer Generator creates a display editor for manipulating objects according to these rules [Reps84]. This volume, The Synthesizer Generator Reference Manual, is intended as the defining document of the system. A companion volume, The Synthesizer Gen­ erator: A System for Constructing Language-Based Editors [Reps88], provides a more tutorial description of the system; it contains numerous examples that illustrate the specification and use of generated editors, as well as chapters that explain important algorithms of the implementation. The Synthesizer Generator is a generalization of our earlier system, the Cor­ nell Program Synthesizer [Teitelbaum81], which was a programming environ­ ment for a specific small dialect of PL\/I. It featured a display-oriented, syntax­ directed editor, an incremental compiler, an execution supervisor supporting source-level debugging, and a file system containing syntactically typed pro­ gram fragments. Whereas PL\/I was built into the Cornell Program Synthesizer, the Synthesizer Generator accepts a formal language definition as input. Although originally conceived as a tool for creating Synthesizer-like environments for arbitrary pro­ gramming languages, the Synthesizer Generator is more broadly useful. Any textual language with a hierarchical phrase structure grammar is a candidate. vi Preface Interactive theorem proving for formal mathematics and logic, for example, has emerged as a particularlysuitable application.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52616997437713,"sku":"NLS9780387969107","price":130.29,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9780387969107.jpg?v=1786873694","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/products\/synthesizer-generator-reference-manual-book-thomas-w-reps-9780387969107","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}