Objective
The GIPE II project has used a generic interactive programming environment as a basis for work in two areas:
- design, implementation, and experimentation of real-size environments for industrial applications
- advanced research in the area of interactive environments, based on formal specifications.
The project planned to use a generic interactive programming environment as a basis for work in 2 areas:
design, implementation, and experimentation of real size environments for industrial applications;
advanced research in the area of interactive environments, based on formal specifications.
This project takes as a starting point the interactive programming environment generator that was the successful outcome of project 348 (GIPE). This system uses as input the complete formal discription of a programming language and produces a specific environment for that language. The resulting environment includes an editor, an interpreter/debuggger, and other tools, all of which have uniform graphics person machine interfaces.
The main result of the GIPE project has been to demonstrate that this technology is feasible. Its follow up, GIPE III, aims to make it mature by providing support for the construction of large formal language definitions, extending the functionality and performance of the generated environments, and demonstrating the approach in a number of selected industrial applications, such as the construction of a development environment for scientific computing and the development of an environment for the LOTOS specification language.
A distributed architecture for the Centaur system has been proposed which makes the system more modular and more appealing to potential customers. Progress has also been achieved on Centaur's interfaces (displays and printing).
The more advanced capabilities of the system are now being explored with the treatment of Fortran, which may lead in an increase of productivity for the parallel program creator and theorem prover communities.
This project takes as a starting point the interactive programming environment generator that was the successful outcome of project 348 (GIPE). This system uses as input the complete formal description of a programming language and produces a specific environment for that language. The resulting environment includes an editor, an interpreter/debugger, and other tools, all of which have uniform graphics user interfaces.
The main result of the GIPE project has been to demonstrate that this technology is feasible.
Its follow-up, GIPE II, aims to make it mature by providing support for the construction of large formal language definitions, extending the functionality and performance of the generated environments, and demonstrating the approach in a number of selected industrial applications, such as the construction of a development environment for scientific computing and the development of an environment for the LOTOS specification language.
Coordinator
92126 Montrouge
France
Participants (9)
92800 Puteaux
78053 Saint-quentin-en-yvelines
78153 Le Chesnay
26389 Wilhelmshaven
11523 Athenes
9700 AN Groningen
1009 AB/10 Amsterdam
64289 Darmstadt
1009 Amsterdam
