This book is the second of two volumes that present the main results which emerged from the project CIP - Computer-Aided, Intuition-Guided Programming - 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.

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Book Title: The Munich Project CIP
Book Subtitle: Volume II: The Programme Transformation System CIP-S
Editors: F. L. Bauer, H. Ehler, A. Horsch, B. Möller, H. Partsch, O. Paukner, P. Pepper
Series Title: Lecture Notes in Computer Science
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-18779-0
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 1987
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-540-18779-0Published: 13 January 1988
eBook ISBN: 978-3-540-48179-9Published: 30 June 2005
Series ISSN: 0302-9743
Series E-ISSN: 1611-3349
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VIII, 524
Topics: Software Engineering, Programming Techniques, Programming Languages, Compilers, Interpreters, Data Structures, Logics and Meanings of Programs, Artificial Intelligence

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Table of contents (6 chapters)

Front Matter

Part I : Introduction

Part II : The transformation calculus

Part III : Formal specification

Part IV : Formal development of selected system functions

Part V : Transformation rules

Part VI : A sample instantiation of the system for a concrete language

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