A Language Designer’s Workbench: A One-Stop-Shop for Implementation and Verification of Language Designs

Eelco Visser ( TU Delft )

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 talk 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.