Circuit Compilation Language(ID:5985/cir003)
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References:
Chandler, Gerald D. "METAPI - a language for extensions" view details
Abstract: The METAPI system [1,2] can be considered to be a combination of a translator writing system and an extensible language system. The history and usage of the system should make clear how it functions in both roles. METAPI grew from the need for a language in which a version of Fortran especially suited for interactive use could be implemented. Originally METAPI consisted of a translator writing system based on the Schorre [3] META II system. It was enhanced during implementation of PIFOR*, our Fortran language. It turned out that METAPI could be incorporated on an equal footing with PIFOR in the interactive system. Thus METAPI became a language for extensions since it was dynamically available. A user of the PI system, which incorporates METAPI and PIFOR can extend his language by writing statements in METAPI and can create any new statement type he wants. It is arbitrary whether these new statement types are considered to be a Fortran type or a METAPI type since in the PI system both languages are so closely intertwined. The PI implementations are examples of the usual applications of a translator writing system. A simple example of an extension would be a shift operator which can be added to PIFOR with a single short line of METAPI code.
Extract: Circuit Diagram Language
Another language written in METAPI is a circuit diagram language. In
this language the input consists of information like "This resistor is connected to these two capacitors." and so on. The output of the system is a description of the transient properties of these circuits.
in [ACM] SIGPLAN Notices 6(12) December 1971 Proceedings of the international symposium on Extensible languages Grenoble, France 1971 view details
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