Purpose-Built Languages

General Purpose Work Flow Languages General Purpose Work Flow Languages *

Work ow management requires language support for work ow speciication and task speciication. Many approaches and systems for work ow managementtherefore ooer at least one new language for work ow speciication; task speciication is usually done in a traditional language. This is motivated in particular by the fact that many components already exist and the task of the work ow tool is the speciic...

Real Time Programming: Special Purpose or General Purpose Languages

Embedding Domain-specific Languages in General-purpose Programming Languages

In recent years, domain-specific languages have been proposed for modelling applications on a high level of abstraction. Although the usage of domain-specific languages offers clear advantages, their design is a highly complex task. Moreover, developing a compiler or interpreter for these languages that can fulfil the requirements of industrial application is hard. Existing tools for the genera...

Enhancing Xtext for General Purpose Languages

Xtext is a popular language workbench conceived to support development of tooling (e.g. parsers and editors) for textual languages. Although Xtext offers strong support for source code generation when building tooling for Domain Specific Languages (DSL), the amount of hand-written source code required to give support to complex General Purpose Languages (GPL) is still significant. This research...

On General-purpose Textual Modeling Languages

Modeling is an important part of the software development process because it allows for a better understanding of the domain as well as an understanding of the software structure and function. Among general-purpose modeling languages dominate the graphical ones such as UML; textual modeling languages are not as popular though they have a big potential. In this paper we define the important feat...