An Accountable Source-To-Source Transformation System

Title: en_US An Accountable Source-To-Source Transformation System
Creator: en_US Steele, Barbara Sue Kerne
Date: 2004-10-20T20:08:35Z
Date Available: 2004-10-20T20:08:35Z
Date Issued: en_US 1981-06-01
Identifier: en_US AITR-636
uri: http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/6936
Abstract: en_US Though one is led to believe that program transformation systems which perform source-to-source transformations enable the user to understand and appreciate the resulting source program, this is not always the case. Transformations are capable of behaving and/or interacting in unexpected ways. The user who is interested in understanding the whats, whys, wheres, and hows of the transformation process is left without tools for discovering them. I provide an initial step towards the solution of this problem in the form of an accountable source-to-source transformation system. It carefully records the information necessary to answer such questions, and provides mechanisms for the retrieval of this information. It is observed that though this accountable system allows the user access to relevant facts from which he may draw conclusions, further study is necessary to make the system capable of analyzing these facts itself.
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Language: en_US
Relation: en_US AITR-636