From: Jurgen Vinju
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Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2001 10:40:44 +0100
Subject: PEM |  1.11.01 | M279

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   Dear colleagues,
   
   Please attend the next PEM on documentation generation.
   
   This announcement can be found with links at
   <http://www.cwi.nl/htbin/jurgenv/pem/pem.cgi?1004612400>
   
         Cost-Effective Maintenance Tools for Proprietary Language
                                      
   Date:     1.11.01
   Time:    10:00
   Venue:   M279
   Speaker: Merijn de Jonge
   Title:   Cost-Effective Maintenance Tools for Proprietary Language

   Maintenance of proprietary languages and correspond-ing tooling is
   expensive. Postponing maintenance to reduce these costs is an often
   applied, short-term solution which eventually may lead to an
   unoperational toolset. In this talk we describe a case study carried
   out in cooperation with Lucent Technologies where maintenance cost is
   decreased by simplifying the development process of languages and
   tools. The development process is simplified by using a
   language-centered software engineering approach which increases
   software reuse and language dependent code generation. The case study
   was concerned with Lucent's proprietary SDL dialect and involved the
   re-engineering of an SDL grammar and the construction of an SDL
   documentation generator.
   
   Have a nice day.
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   The programming environment meetings are a forum for the presentation
   and discussion of new ideas, ongoing and finished work. A typical
   meeting addresses a subject in the area of programming environments,
   program generation, algebraic specification, term rewriting, parsing,
   etc. A presentation ideally takes between 45 and 90 minutes. Meetings
   taking longer than 45 minutes are interrupted by a coffeebreak. Most
   Thursdays, a meeting is held which starts at 10:00 am. in one of the
   rooms at CWI/WINS. Exceptionally, dates or times may change.
   
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