VisualLISA: Visual programming environment for attribute grammars specification
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The benefits of using visual languages and graphical
editors are well known. In some specific domain it is really crucial
to program with graphical representations, icons, geometric
objects, colors and so on. Nowadays it is possible to easily
implement a visual language, constructing, automatically, visual
editors for it.
In this paper we want to emphasize how it is possible to easily
specify a huge amount of complex information, associated with an
attribute grammar, using graphical objects and a very intuitive
modular approach. For that purpose we present a new visual
language to specify attribute grammars (called VisualLISA) and
we present also a modular approach that uses VisualLISA in an
integrated editor to draw attribute grammars.
We would like to thank Bastian Cramer, from University of
Paderborn, for his constant support during the development of
VisualLISA, and his continuous interest on collaborating with
us on other projects.
