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KHEPERA: A System for Rapid Implementation of Domain-Specific Languages
Rickard E. Faith, Lars S. Nyland, and Jan F. Prins, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
The KHEPERA system is a toolkit for the rapid implementation and long-term maintenance of domain specific languages (DSLs). Our viewpoint is that DSLs are most easily implemented via source-to-source translation from the DSL into another language and that this translation should be based on simple parsing, sophisticated tree-based analysis and manipulation, and source generation using pretty-printing techniques. KHEPERA emphasizes the use of familiar, pre-existing tools and provides support for transformation replay and debugging for the DSL processor and end-user programs. In this paper, we present an overview of our approach, including implementation details and a short example.
author = {Rickard E. Faith and Lars S. Nyland and Jan F. Prins},
title = {{KHEPERA}: A System for Rapid Implementation of {Domain-Specific} Languages},
booktitle = {Conference on Domain-Specific Languages (DSL 97)},
year = {1997},
address = {Santa Barbara, CA },
url = {https://www.usenix.org/conference/dsl-97/khepera-system-rapid-implementation-domain-specific-languages},
publisher = {USENIX Association},
month = oct
}