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   Dear Environmentalists,

   This week brings the first in a (hopefully) long series of SPEM talks.
   These are talks designed to discuss technology that can and/or will be
   deployed in the newly forged SEN1 spinoff company.

   Arie  has  the  honour  of  presenting the first. He will describe how
   DocGen started, what it is today, and where we will go from here.

   This announcement can be found at <http://www.cwi.nl/~pem>

                      DocGen, past, present and future

   Date:    13.01.00
   Time:    10:00
   Venue:   M2.79, CWI
   Speaker: Arie van Deursen
   Title:   DocGen, past, present and future

   [joint work with Tobias Kuipers]

   We  will  give  an  overview of the work done on DocGen, put this in a
   historical perspective, and describe where we should go from here, and
   how.

   Paper abstract:

   In   order   to   maintain   the   consistency   between  sources  and
   documentation,  while  at the same time providing documentation at the
   design  level,  it is necessary to generate documentation from sources
   in   such   a   way  that  it  can  be  integrated  with  hand-written
   documentation.  In order to simplify the construction of documentation
   generators,  we  introduce  island  grammars,  which only define those
   syntactic structures needed for (re)documentation purposes. We explain
   how they can be used to obtain various forms of documentation, such as
   data  dependency  diagrams  for  mainframe  batch  jobs.  Moreover, we
   discuss  how  the  derived  information  can  be  made available via a
   hypertext  structure.  We  conclude  with  an industrial case study in
   which  a  600,000  LOC  COBOL  legacy system is redocumented using the
   techniques presented in the paper.
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