
The Munich Project CIP
Volume II: The Programme Transformation System CIP-S
Springer (Publisher)
Published on 13. January 1988
Book
Paperback/Softback
VIII, 524 pages
978-3-540-18779-0 (ISBN)
Description
This book is the second of two volumes that present the main results which emerged from the project CIP -
C
omputer-Aided,
I
ntuition-Guided
P
rogramming - at the Technical University of Munich. Its central theme is program development by transformation, a methodology which is becoming more and more important. Whereas Volume I contains the description and formal specification of a wide spectrum language CIP-L particularly tailored to the needs of transformational programming, Volume II serves a double purpose: First, it describes a system, called CIP-S, that is to assist a programmer in the method of transformational programming. Second, it gives a non-toy example for this very method, since it contains a formal specification of the system core and transformational developments for the more interesting system routines. Based on a formal calculus of program transformations, the informal requirements for the system are stated. Then the system core is formally specified using the algebraic data types and the pre-algorithmic logical constructs of the wide spectrum language CIP-L. It is demonstrated how executable, procedural level programs can be developed from this specification according to formal rules. The extensive collection of these rules is also contained in the book; it can be used as the basis for further developments using this method. Since the system has been designed in such a way that it is parameterized with the concrete programming language to be transformed, the book also contains a guide how to actualize this parameter; the proceeding is exemplified with a small subset of CIP-L.
More details
Series
Edition
1987 ed.
Language
English
Place of publication
Berlin
Germany
Publishing group
Springer Berlin
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Research
Illustrations
VIII, 524 p.
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 155 mm
Thickness: 29 mm
Weight
803 gr
ISBN-13
978-3-540-18779-0 (9783540187790)
DOI
10.1007/3-540-18779-0
Schweitzer Classification
Persons
Content
I : Introduction.- II : The transformation calculus.- III : Formal specification.- IV : Formal development of selected system functions.- V : Transformation rules.- VI : A sample instantiation of the system for a concrete language.