publications:
- title: "Declarative specification of template-based textual editors"
  author:
  - name: "Tobi Vollebregt"
    link: "http://www.tobivollebregt.nl/"
  - name: "Lennart C. L. Kats"
    link: "http://www.lclnet.nl/"
  - name: "Eelco Visser"
    link: "http://eelcovisser.org"
  year: "2012"
  doi: "http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/2427048.2427056"
  abstract: "Syntax discoverability has been a crucial advantage of structure editors for new users of a language. Despite this advantage, structure editors have not been widely adopted. Based on immediate parsing and analyses, modern textual code editors are also increasingly syntax-aware: structure and textual editors are converging into a new editing paradigm that combines text and templates. Current text-based language workbenches require redundant specification of the ingredients for a template-based editor, which is detrimental to the quality of syntactic completion, as consistency and completeness of the definition cannot be guaranteed. In this paper we describe the design and implementation of a specification language for syntax definition based on templates. It unifies the specification of parsers, unparsers and template-based editors. We evaluate the template language by application to two domain-specific languages used for tax benefits and mobile applications. "
  links:
    doi: "http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/2427048.2427056"
    dblp: "http://dblp.uni-trier.de/rec/bibtex/conf/ldta/VollebregtKV12"
  researchr: "https://researchr.org/publication/VollebregtKV12"
  cites: 0
  citedby: 0
  pages: "1-7"
  booktitle: "LDTA"
  kind: "inproceedings"
  key: "VollebregtKV12"
- title: "A Survey of Language Workbenches"
  author:
  - name: "Tobi Vollebregt"
    link: "http://www.tobivollebregt.nl/"
  year: "2010"
  abstract: "Domain-specic languages (DSLs) oer more expressivity than general purpose languages (GPLs). The up-front investment re- quired to develop a DSL is often an obstacle, as is the lack of editor services for traditionally developed DSLs. This lack of editor services be- comes a bigger problem as tools for GPLs have increasingly better editor services. Language workbenches intend to solve these problems: By providing an environment for rapid DSL development the cost for developing a DSL can be reduced signicantly. At the same time language workbenches aim to generate not only a compiler or interpreter for the DSL, but a complete programming environment including many common editor services. An overview of the components and requirements of a typical language workbench and a number of the most important modern language workbenches are presented in this paper."
  tags:
  - "programming languages"
  - "workbench"
  - "completeness"
  - "meta programming"
  - "interpreter"
  - "survey"
  - "C++"
  - "compiler"
  - "DSL"
  - "programming"
  - "language workbench"
  - "Meta-Environment"
  - "domain-specific language"
  researchr: "https://researchr.org/publication/Vollebregt-smps-2010"
  cites: 0
  citedby: 0
  booktitle: "SMP"
  kind: "inproceedings"
  key: "Vollebregt-smps-2010"
- title: "Declarative Specification of Template-Based Textual Editors"
  author:
  - name: "Tobi Vollebregt"
    link: "http://www.tobivollebregt.nl/"
  year: "2012"
  month: "April"
  doi: "http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:8907468c-b102-4a35-aa84-d49bb2110541"
  abstract: "Syntax discoverability has been a crucial advantage of structure editors for new users of a language. Despite this advantage, structure editors have not been widely adopted. Nevertheless, the Cheetah system, developed at Capgemini, leverages a structure editor to aid domain experts modeling tax-benefit rules in a domain specific language. The structure editor suffers from a lack of free form editing and conversions from/to plain text. The Spoofax language workbench, developed at Delft University of Technology, uses a textual editor, which is syntax-aware due to immediate parsing and analyses. In this thesis we describe a migration from Cheetah to Spoofax, which aims to bring the advantages of text editing to the tax-benefit rule modeling language. During the migration, we experienced that current text-based language workbenches, such as Spoofax, require redundant specification of the ingredients for a template-based editor, which is detrimental to the quality of syntactic completion, as consistency and completeness of the definition cannot be guaranteed. We describe the design and implementation of a specification language for syntax definition based on templates. It unifies the specification of parser, pretty printer and template-based editor. We evaluate the template language by application to the tax-benefit rule modeling language and a language for mobile web applications."
  links:
    doi: "http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:8907468c-b102-4a35-aa84-d49bb2110541"
    "pdf": "http://repository.tudelft.nl/assets/uuid:8907468c-b102-4a35-aa84-d49bb2110541/thesis-final.pdf"
    "tud repository": "http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:8907468c-b102-4a35-aa84-d49bb2110541"
  tags:
  - "workbench"
  - "rule-based"
  - "syntax definition"
  - "completeness"
  - "model editor"
  - "meta-model"
  - "modeling language"
  - "modeling"
  - "language modeling"
  - "language design"
  - "rules"
  - "migration"
  - "web applications"
  - "consistency"
  - "language workbench"
  - "Spoofax"
  - "Meta-Environment"
  - "parsing"
  - "domain-specific language"
  researchr: "https://researchr.org/publication/Vollebregt2012"
  cites: 0
  citedby: 0
  school: "Delft University of Technology"
  address: "Delft, The Netherlands"
  advisor:
  - name: "Eelco Visser"
    link: "http://eelcovisser.org"
  - name: "Lennart C. L. Kats"
    link: "http://www.lclnet.nl/"
  kind: "mastersthesis"
  key: "Vollebregt2012"