Category:Rascal
This programming language may be used to instruct a computer to perform a task.
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| Execution method: | Interpreted |
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| Garbage collected: | Yes |
| Parameter passing methods: | By value |
| Type safety: | Safe |
| Type strength: | Strong |
| Type expression: | Partially implicit |
| Type checking: | Dynamic |
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Rascal is a domain specific language for source code analysis and manipulation a.k.a. meta-programming. It is currently being developed and tested at CWI. No formal release has been made yet, but alpha quality "previews" are available on the Download page.[1]
Facts
Here's a list of facts about Rascal that you might find interesting:
- Rascal is the successor of the ASF+SDF Meta-Environment.
- Like ASF+SDF, it fully supports embedded concrete syntax fragments for "syntax safe" matching and construction of source code.
- Like StringTemplate, it supports recursive string templates for code generation in the absence of a context-free grammar.
- Tobias Baanders designed the Rascal logo.
- It employs a parsing architecture inspired by Scott and Johnstone's GLL parsing.
- It's fundamental run-time data representation and manipulation API (pdb.values) is a part of Eclipse IMP.
- PDB.values was inspired (mostly) by the ATerm library and RScript.
- We used Rascal itself to transform its Java-based interpreter from the Visitor design pattern to the Interpreter design pattern automagically.
References
Pages in category "Rascal"
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