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A technique for generating interpretive translators for problem-oriented languages

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The paper presents a technique for generating translators for problem-oriented and other command- or data-oriented languages which can be interpretively executed. The system consists of: (a) a stored grammar or table, representing in a modified graph form the syntactically valid statements and the corresponding semantic actions; (b) a set of application procedures, written in a procedural language; (c) a universal translator, which performs reading, input conversion, matching input items against the grammar, and calling the procedures specified by the grammar. The generator consists of the translator and a specific grammar and set of procedures, which together convert the problem-oriented description of the source grammar into the table used by the translator for execution.

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  1. Engineering Development Division, U.S. Army Construction Engineering Research Laboratory, 61820, Champaign, Illinois

    E. L. Murphree Jr. & S. J. Fenves

  2. Civil Engineering Systems Laboratory, University of Illinois, 61801, Urbana, Illinois

    E. L. Murphree Jr. & S. J. Fenves

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Murphree, E.L., Fenves, S.J. A technique for generating interpretive translators for problem-oriented languages. BIT 10, 310–323 (1970). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01934200

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