Eelco Visser, Guido Wachsmuth, Andrew P. Tolmach, Pierre Néron, Vlad A. Vergu, Augusto Passalaqua, Gabriël Konat. A Language Designer's Workbench: A One-Stop-Shop for Implementation and Verification of Language Designs. In Andrew P. Black, Shriram Krishnamurthi, Bernd Bruegge, Joseph N. Ruskiewicz, editors, Onward! 2014, Proceedings of the 2014 ACM International Symposium on New Ideas, New Paradigms, and Reflections on Programming & Software, part of SPLASH '14, Portland, OR, USA, October 20-24, 2014. pages 95-111, ACM, 2014. [doi]
The realization of a language design requires multiple artifacts that redundantly encode the same information. This entails significant effort for language implementors, and often results in late detection of errors in language definitions. In this paper we present a proof-of-concept language designer’s workbench that supports generation of IDEs, interpreters, and verification infrastructure from a single source. This constitutes a first milestone on the way to a system that fully automates language implementation and verification.