The Syntax and Parsing of the Two-Dimensional Languages

Authors

Will D. Gillett, Washington University in St. Louis
T. D. Kimura, Washington University in St. Louis

Document Type

Technical Report

Publication Date

1986-07-01

Filename

WUCS-86-14.pdf

Technical Report Number

WUCS-86-14

Abstract

This report introduces the idea of expressing programming concepts in a two-dimensional (pictorial) language. A specific two-dimensional language, Show and Tell, is briefly presented and formalisms that might be used to define the syntax of such a language are discussed. An abstraction of Show and Tell is defined, and a specific grammar formalism is presented for defining the syntax of this abstraction. The mechanisms found in expert systems are shown to be sufficient to parse languages defined by this formalism.

Comments

Permanent URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.7936/K7NG4NZW

Recommended Citation

Gillett, Will D. and Kimura, T. D., "The Syntax and Parsing of the Two-Dimensional Languages" Report Number: WUCS-86-14 (1986). All Computer Science and Engineering Research.
https://openscholarship.wustl.edu/cse_research/830