Translating algol 60 programs into Ada

Huijsman, R. D.; Katwijk, J. van; Pronk, C.N.A.; Toetenel, W.J.

doi:10.1145/36077.36080

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“…Citing Huijsman et al [HvKPT87], Plaisted observes that previous work has shown the value of defining translations on subsets of languages [Pla13]. He argues for the development of abstract languages and subsets of high-level languages, and the creation of translators from those interoperable languages to other high-level languages.…”

Section: Source-to-source Translationmentioning

confidence: 99%

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The Design and Evaluation of an Interoperable Translation System for Object-Oriented Software Reuse.

Schaub¹,

Malloy²

2016

JOT

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In this paper, we address the problem of defining a source-to-source translation system for reusable software components. We design an interoperable language for writing software components, and present a system to translate components written in the interoperable language to a set of compatible target languages. We analyze the common features in a set of popular programming languages to inform the design of our interoperable language. We evaluate the utility of our system by using our source-to-source translator to convert two well-known open source Java libraries to C++ and Python, and assess the accuracy and performance of the resulting translation.

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Section: Source-to-source Translationmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…These translators are specialpurpose conversion efforts that are not extensible to support other sources or targets. The literature contains numerous examples [HvKPT87,KLV03,MW91,TO98]. Most of these report challenges in performing a completely automated conversion of the entire source language.…”

Section: Source-to-source Translationmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Design and Evaluation of an Interoperable Translation System for Object-Oriented Software Reuse.

Schaub¹,

Malloy²

2016

JOT

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“…Huijsman et al [11] also consider translating Algol 60 into Ada. They note that there have been many attempts to translate programs between languages, even in 1986.…”

Section: Past Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…They also note that it is difficult or even impossible to translate some Algol 60 constructs into Ada, particularly in the areas of goto statements, parameter passing, and interaction with the operating system. However, they note that "in a large number of cases large parts of the Algol 60 programs can be translated mechanically" (Huijsman et al [11], p. 48). Overall, they found that 80 to 90 percent of Algol 60 code could be translated automatically.…”

Section: Past Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Some of the past works (Wallis [9], Huijsman et al [11]) rejected or questioned the source-to-source approach because it could not be made fully automatic or guaranteed correct, thus setting the bar too high. These researchers also required the source-to-source system to translate the entire program automatically, and to work for all programs.…”

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Source-to-Source Translation and Software Engineering

Plaisted¹

2013

JSEA

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Source-to-source translation of programs from one high level language to another has been shown to be an effective aid to programming in many cases. By the use of this approach, it is sometimes possible to produce software more cheaply and reliably. However, the full potential of this technique has not yet been realized. It is proposed to make source-to-source translation more effective by the use of abstract languages, which are imperative languages with a simple syntax and semantics that facilitate their translation into many different languages. By the use of such abstract languages and by translating only often-used fragments of programs rather than whole programs, the need to avoid writing the same program or algorithm over and over again in different languages can be reduced. It is further proposed that programmers be encouraged to write often-used algorithms and program fragments in such abstract languages. Libraries of such abstract programs and program fragments can then be constructed, and programmers can be encouraged to make use of such libraries by translating their abstract programs into application languages and adding code to join things together when coding in various application languages. This approach can also improve program reliability, because it is only necessary to verify the abstract programs once instead of verifying them separately in each application language. Also, this approach makes it possible to generate code faster than programming from scratch each time. This approach is compared to the use of libraries and to other methods in current use for communication between programming languages and translation between languages.

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