Software systems need to evolve, and systems built using model-driven approaches are no
exception. What complicates model-driven engineering is that it requires multiple …

For decades we have been using Chomsky's generative system of grammars, particularly
context-free grammars (CFGs) and regular expressions (REs), to express the syntax of …

Programming-by-Examples (PBE) involves synthesizing an" intended program" from a small
set of user-provided input-output examples. A key PBE strategy has been to restrict the …

TXL is a special-purpose programming language designed for creating, manipulating and
rapidly prototy** language descriptions, tools and applications. TXL is designed to allow …

Stratego/XT is a language and toolset for program transformation. The Stratego language
provides rewrite rules for expressing basic transformations, programmable rewriting …

Packrat parsing is a novel technique for implementing parsers in a lazy functional
programming language. A packrat parser provides the power and flexibility of top-down …

Grammarware comprises grammars and all grammar-dependent software. The term
grammar is meant here in the sense of all established grammar formalisms and grammar …

Existing approaches to extend a programming language with syntactic sugar often leave a
bitter taste, because they cannot be used with the same ease as the main extension …

Application programmer's interfaces give access to domain knowledge encapsulated in
class libraries without providing the appropriate notation for expressing domain composition …

CASL, the Common Algebraic Specification Language, was designed by the members of
CoFI, the Common Framework Initiative for algebraic specification and development, and is …