A Retrospective on DOSE: An Interpretive Approach to Structure Editor Generation

DOSE is unique among structu.re editor generators in its interpretive appro臼h. This approach leads to v町y fast turn-around time for changes and provides multi-language facilities for no additional effort or cost. This article comp缸es the interpretive approach to the comp i1ation approach of other structu.re editor generators. It describes some of the design and implementation decisions made and remade during this project and the lessons learned. It emphasizes 由e advantages and disadvantages of DoSE wi由自S归ct to other structure editing systems. Prof. Kaiser is supported in part by grants from AT&T, mM, Siemens and Sun, in part by the Center of Advanced Technology and by the Center for Telecommunications Re回arch. and in part by a DEC Faculty Award. The DOSE sys臼m was developed at Siemens Research and Technology Laboratory in Princeton, NJ. *Carnegie Mellon University, Software Engineering Institute, 5创)() Forbes Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15213. Dr. Feil町 is supported by the Department of Defense. +AT&T Bell Laboratories, 600 Mountain Avenue, Murray Hil1, NJ 07974. =Xerox Corporation, Joseph Wi1son Research Center, 8∞ Phillips Road. Webst町, NY 14580. SOFT飞飞'ARE-PRλCTICE 飞\D EXPERIE :'IJ CE. \'OL 18(8). ï3J-ì48 (:\L'GCS丁 1(188) A Retrospective on DOSE: An Interpretive l\pproach to Structure Editor Generation GAIL E. KAISER Co/umbia L"ni'l.'ersity , Department 01 ('omputer Scie71ce , 450 Computer Science Rui/di咽, .飞 ezι: )ork, _飞飞 • J002ï, C.S--\. PETER H. FEILER Camegre .\Je/lon L"nit'ersity , 8呐饥:are E71gineen'lIg lnstitute , 5000 For古时 .. h'enue , Pittsburgh , P.4. J 521J, C.S--\. FAHI l\1EH ]ALlLI AT&T Re /l Laboraton'es , 600 .\lou71tain .4.u71ue, .\Jurray Hill, _飞J 07974, CSλ.