Modular Interpreters

As part of the Language Factories work that Laurie Tratt and I started a while back, I have done some experiments to see whether a language family can be implemented using XPL and how far the differences between members of the family can be hidden. My experiment involved defining a language factory for state-machine languages. Such a factory is shown on the right where syntactic variations include the rules for the transition labels, and semantic variations include whether machine execution is single-threaded or multi-threaded and whether the labels are processed. I was particularly interested in designing a single machine interpreter that works with many different implementations. This turns out to have some relationship with monads and modular interpreters although I have not developed this with any rigour. A short article describing how this is implemented is here.

Workshop on OCL and Textual Modelling

Jordi has blogged about out up-coming workshop on OCL and Textual Modelling at MODELS 10. Please submit a paper and/or bring this event to the attention of your colleagues.

Pune: Raining, Singing and a Grumpy Chef

A short visit to Pune where it had been raining so hard it had brought branches of trees down onto the road. My colleague Shakil Shaikh took me to a restaurant hidden in the middle of the hotel. The louder the band played the grumpier the chef looked (despite being asked to say 'panir'). Off to New Delhi....

Mumbai: Shopping

After finishing in Mumbai we went for some retail therapy. Mrs Bacha is a formidable shopper and seems to know all the shopkeepers. She made sure of 'local prices' in a fantastic carpet shop. Now off to Pune 'the Oxford of the East' (which seems to be pronounced 'poon-a' and 'poon-ay' interchangeably.