From: Mark Subject: Catalog of compilers, interpreters, and other language tools [p1of3] Summary: Monthly posting of free language tools that include source code Reply-to: markh@csd4.csd.uwm.edu1 Followup-To: comp.archives.admin Keywords: tools, FTP, administrivia Approved: compilers@iecc.cambridge.ma.us Archive-name: free-compilers Last-modified: 1993/06/24 Version: 5.0 Catalog of Free Compilers and Interpreters. This list catalogues freely available software for language tools, which includes the following: compilers, compiler generators, interpreters, and assemblers -- things whose user interface is a language. Natural language processing tools may also be included. Even editors have been included upon reaching the rarified level of Turing Universality. This is still a draft document: it may have an error or two, it is not yet complete, and is being standardized. A copy of this document may be found via anonymous FTP on csd4.csd.uwm.edu in the directory /pub/compilers/list. This list is primarily aimed at developers rather than researchers, and consists mainly of citations for production quality systems. There is some overlap of coverage between this document and other lists and catalogs. See the references section for a list... All the listed items should be free and come with source code, exceptions have generally been deleted from the list in the past. If you find any such items in the list let me know and I'll remove them. Not all entries have complete citations. Some fields are filled with question marks (?). Fields with both the ? and an entry are implicit requests for confirmation. You're welcome to send me additions, revisions, and even new entries. The first entry in the tools section of this list is the Reference Entry containing all the fields used in that section, along with descriptions of what they mean, use that as the basis of your entry. Subsidary fields can be appended, but be sparing and try and group everything under the main topics (the #-fields) This list has changed "listkeeper" from the previous month. The only major change to date is that the "how to get" field is now known as "location". I do not keep in regular contact with every possible outlet for source code releases. If you want to make the list more complete, you may want to compile your own sublists of items not included in here, and send them to me. Mark Hopkins , June 24, 1993 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------- selected major changes ------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Selected changes section language package -------- ------- new listings: a1 (Address 1 code) a1 code interpreter ASA Adaptive Simulated Annealing (ASA) 1.26 Assembler (various) fas: Frankenstein Cross Assemblers Assembler (8051) as31 - An 8031/8051 assembler. BNF lalr.ss - An LALR(1) parser generator 0.9 C GNU C Library 1.06 [Will do the same with libg++ if someone can provide a good citation] C++ cppp 1.14 (C++ parser) ? Calc ? Arbitrary precision calculator 1.26.4 Glish glish 2.2.2 Maisie Maisie-parallel-language 2.1 micro-C++ uC++ 3.7 (a concurrent C++) nat. lang. (Pleuk) Pleuk grammar development system Q Q Perl bigperl 4.0pl36 Perl perl profiler. shell ERGO shell 2.1 S-Lang slang new versions: sed GNU sed 1.17 elisp - Emacs Lisp GNU Emacs 19.15 C, C++ GNU CC (gcc) 2.4.5 djgpp: Windows 3.*, OS/2 support added Postscript Ghostscript 2.6.1 edits: Increased standardization of the document. Reference Entry added in Tools section. deleted (no source): seeking: Assemblers and other microprocessor tools -- All the multitudes of 8-bit assemblers free with source Disassemblers Microprocessor Simulators Natural Language Processing Tools -- NL parsers and compilers NL language development tools Logic -- Theorem provers with language interfaces. More EBNF parser tools ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------- tools ---------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- language: (#) Reference Entry (all (#) fields are obligatory) Language: what the software compiles/interprets... package: (#) The name of the package version: (#) Its current version parts: (#) compiler, assembler, interpreter, translator, grammar(yacc, lex), library, documentation, examples, assembler, simulator, tutorial, test suite, ... author: (#) the creator of the package, or contributor, if this is a document (such as a language grammar). Publisher alco included, if applicable. location: (#) where to get the source, how to get it -- usually an FTP site or two. May have subheaders for specific areas or different ports of the software (don't overdo this!): N.America: Sites for North Americans. Europe: Sites Europeans should use Japan: Sites for people in Japan OS/2: Sites with OS/2 ports. description: (#) what the package is, possibly including some history A short review encouraged, but no propaganda please. conformance: how well does it conform to the existing Standard, if one exists reference: research references and other external documentation. features: salient features not listed in the description. bugs: known bugs (also: where to go to find/report bugs) restriction: restrictions using the software will place on the user. requires: what is needed to install it. ports: where it has been installed portability: how system-independent is it, system dependencies. status: development status discussion: where discussion about the package takes place help: where help may be gotten from support: where support may be gotten from contributions: possible requests for money constributions (but no shareware) announcements: where new releases are announced contact: who to reach concerning the package updated: (#) last known update on the package language: a1 (Address 1 code) package: a1 code interpreter version: ? 1 parts: interpreter, examples author: Matthew Newhook (matthew@engr.mun.ca) location: garfield.cs.mun.ca:/pub/a1/a1.tar.Z description: An address 1 code interpreter used to test compiler output. requires: gcc 2.4.2 or higher portability: Ports to machine without memory segment protection unverified. updated: 1993/06/02 language: ABC package: ABC version: 1.04.01 parts: ? author: Leo Geurts, Lambert Meertens, Steven Pemberton location: ftp programming/languages/abc/* from mcsun.eu.net or ftp.eu.net description: ABC is an imperative language embedded in its own environment. It is interactive, structured, high-level, very easy to learn, and easy to use. It is suitable for general everyday programming, such as you would use BASIC, Pascal, or AWK for. It is not a systems-programming language. It is an excellent teaching language, and because it is interactive, excellent for prototyping. ABC programs are typically very compact, around a quarter to a fifth the size of the equivalent Pascal or C program. However, this is not at the cost of readability, on the contrary in fact. reference: "The ABC Programmer's Handbook" by Leo Geurts, Lambert Meertens and Steven Pemberton, published by Prentice-Hall (ISBN 0-13-000027-2) "An Alternative Simple Language and Environment for PCs" by Steven Pemberton, IEEE Software, Vol. 4, No. 1, January 1987, pp. 56-64. ports: unix, MSDOS, atari, mac contact: abc@cwi.nl updated: 1991/05/02 language: ABCL/1 (An object-Based Concurrent Language) package: ABCL/1 version: ? parts: ? author: Akinori Yonezawa, ABCL Group now at Department of Information Science, the University of Tokyo location: ftp pub/abcl1/* from camille.is.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp description: Asynchronous message passing to objects. reference: "ABCL: An Object-Oriented Concurrent System", Edited by Akinori Yonezawa, The MIT Press, 1990, (ISBN 0-262-24029-7) restriction: no commercial use, must return license agreement requires: Common Lisp contact: abcl@is.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp updated: 1990/05/23 language: ABCL ??? package: ABCL/R2 version: ? parts: ? author: masuhara@is.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp, matsu@is.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp, takuo@is.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp, yonezawa@is.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp location: ftp pub/abclr2/* from camille.is.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp description: ABCL/R2 is an object-oriented concurrent reflective language based on Hybrid Group Architecture. As a reflective language, an ABCL/R2 program can dynamically control its own behavior, such as scheduling policy, from within user-program. An an object-oriented concurrent language, this system has almost all functions of ABCL/1. requires: Common Lisp updated: 1993/01/28 language: Ada package: Ada/Ed version: 1.11.0a+ parts: translator(?), interpreter, ? author: ? location: ftp pub/Ada/Ada-Ed from cnam.cnam.fr description: Ada/Ed is a translator-interpreter for Ada. It is intended as a teaching tool, and does not have the capacity, performance, or robustness of commercial Ada compilers. Ada/Ed was developed at New York University, as part of a long-range project in language definition and software prototyping. conformance: Ada 83. Last validated with version 1.7 of the ACVC tests. being an interpreter, it does not implement most representation clauses, and thus does not support systems programming close to the machine level. ports: Unix, MSDOS, Amiga, Atari contact: Michael Feldman updated: 1992/05/08 language: Ada package: Ada grammar version: ? parts: scanner(lex), parser(yacc) author: ? location: ftp from primost.cs.wisc.edu or mail to compilers-server@iecc.cambridge.ma.us description: ? contact: masticol@dumas.rutgers.edu updated: 1991/10/12 language: Ada package: Compiler for Toy/Ada in SML/NJ version: ? parts: translator(?) author: Amit Bhatiani location: ftp pub/compiler*.tar.Z from master.cs.rose-hulman.edu description: ? conformance: subset updated: 1992/04/08 language: Ada package: NASA PrettyPrinter version: ? parts: Ada LR parser, ? author: ? Michael Feldman in comp.compilers provided the initial reference to this package, he also has a yacc grammar for ada. location: ftp from Ada Software Repository on wsmr-simtel20.army.mil description: pretty-print program that contains an ada parser requires: Ada updated: 1991/02/01 language: Ada package: yacc grammar for Ada version: ? parts: parser(yacc) author: Herman Fischer location: ftp PD2:GRAM2.SRC from wsmr-simtel20.army.mil description: ? contact: ? updated: 1991/02/01 language: Ada package: Paradise version: 2.0 parts: library author: ? location: ftp pub/Ada/Paradise from cnam.cnam.fr description: Paradise is a subsystem (a set of packages) developped to implement inter-processes, inter-tasks and inter-machines communication for Ada programs in the Unix world. This subsystem gives the user full access to files, pipes, sockets (both Unix and Internet), and pseudo-devices. ports: Sun, Dec, Sony Mips, Verdex compiler, DEC compiler, Alsys/Systeam compiler contact: paradise-info@cnam.cnam.fr updated: 1992/09/30 language: Ada package: Adamakegen version: 2.6.3 parts: makefile generator author: Owen O'Malley location: ftp ftp/pub/arcadia/adamakegen* from spare.ics.uci.edu description: A program that generates makefiles for Ada programs requires: Icon ports: Verdix, SunAda updated: 1993/03/02 language: ADL (Adventure Definition Language) package: ADL version: ? parts: interpreter author: Ross Cunniff , Tim Brengle location: comp.sources.games archive volume 2 description: An adventure language, semi-object-oriented with LISP-like syntax. A superset of DDL. updated: ? language: Algol, Foogol package: foogol version: ? parts: compiler author: ? location: comp.sources.unix archive volume 8 description: ? conformance: subset of Algol ports: VAX updated: ? language: ALLOY package: ALLOY version: 2.0? parts: interpreter, documentation, examples author: Thanasis Mitsolides location: ftp pub/local/alloy/* from cs.nyu.edu description: ALLOY is a higher level parallel programming language appropriate for programming massively parallel computing systems. It is based on a combination of ideas from functional, object oriented and logic programming languages. The result is a language that can directly support functional, object oriented and logic programming styles in a unified and controlled framework. Evaluating modes support serial or parallel execution, eager or lazy evaluation, non-determinism or multiple solutions etc. ALLOY is simple as it only requires 29 primitives in all (half of which for Object Oriented Programming support). ports: sparc, ? updated: 1991/06/11 language: APL package: I-APL version: ? parts: ? author: ? location: ftp languages/apl/* from watserv1.waterloo.edu description: ? updated: 1992/07/06 language: APL package: APLWEB version: ? parts: translator(web->apl), translator(web->TeX) author: Dr. Christoph von Basum location: ftp languages/apl/aplweb/* from watserv1.uwaterloo.ca description: ? updated: 1992/12/07 language: ASA package: Adaptive Simulated Annealing (ASA) version: 1.26 parts: ? author: Lester Ingber (ingber@cco.caltech.edu) location: ftp.caltech.edu [131.215.48.151] in pub/ingber/ or send mail with the body: "help" to ftpmail@decwrl.dec.com description: ? Language interface to neural net simulator? discussion: To get on or off blind-copy ASA e-mailings, send an e-mail to ingber@alumni.caltech.edu with your request. updated: 1993/06/06 language: Assembler (various) package: GNU assembler (GAS) version: 2.1.1 parts: assembler, documentation author: ? location: ftp gas-2.0.tar.z from a GNU archive site description: Many CPU types are now handled, and COFF and IEEE-695 formats are supported as well as standard a.out. bugs: bug-gnu-utils@prep.ai.mit.edu ports: Sun-3, Sun-4, i386/{386BSD, BSD/386, Linux, PS/2-AIX}, VAX/{Ultrix,BSD,VMS} updated: 1993/05/20 language: Assembler (various) package: fas: Frankenstein Cross Assemblers version: ? parts: base assembler, parser modules (yacc), documentation? author: Mark Zenier location: ftp.njit.edu:/pub/msdos/frankasm/frankasm.zoo [Inform me of the other sites -Mark] description: A reconfigurable assembler package, especially suited for 8-bit processors, consisting of a base assembler module and a yacc parser, for each microprocessor, to handle mnemonics and addressing. Second party parser modules available from many sites. requires: YACC updated: ? language: Assembler (8051) package: CAS 8051 Assembler version: 1.1 parts: assembler/linker, disassembler, documentation, examples author: Mark Hopkins location: ftp /pub/8051/assem from csd4.csd.uwm.edu N.America: ftp /pub/8051/assem from lyman.pppl.gov Europe: ftp /pub/microprocs/MCS-51/csd4-archive/assem from nic.funet.fi description: experimental one-pass assembler for the 8051 with C-like syntax. Related software contained in /pub/8051, including arbitrary precision math, and multitasking routines. requires: ANSI-C compiler ports: MSDOS, Ultrix, Sun 4 (contact author) updated: 1993/05/15 language: Assembler (8051) package: as31 - An 8031/8051 assembler. version: ? 1 parts: assembler, parser(yacc), documentation author: Ken Stauffer (stauffer@cpsc.ucalgary.ca) (Theo Deraadt wrote the S-record output routines) location: wuarchive.wustl.edu at /usenet/comp.sources.misc/volume10/asm.8051.Z ftp.uu.net:/usenet/comp.sources.misc/volume10/asm.8051.Z description: Assembler with ability to produce a variety of object output formats, including S-records. ports: SUN 3 / SUN 4 (SunOS 4.0), Tandy 6000 (Xenix) portability: File I/O may require porting on non-UNIXs. updated: 1990/01/26 language: Assembler (mc6809) package: usim version: 0.11 parts: simulator, documentation author: Ray P. Bellis location: ftp /pub/mc6809/usim-* from ftp.cns.ox.ac.uk description: a mc6809 simulator updated: 1993/02/14 language: Assembler (Motorola DSP56000) package: ? version: 1.1 parts: assembler author: Quinn Jensen location: alt.sources archive or ftp ? from wuarchive.wustl.edu description: ? updated: ? language: Assembler (Motorola DSP56001) package: a56 version: 1.1 parts: assembler author: Quinn C. Jensen location: alt.sources archive description: ? updated: 1992/08/10 language: Assembler (6502, Z80, 8085, 68xx) package: ? version: ? parts: ? author: msmakela@cc.helsinki.fi and Alan R. Baldwin location: ftp ? from ccosun.caltech.edu description: I have enhanced a set of 68xx and Z80 and 8085 cross assemblers to support 6502. These assemblers run on MS-DOS computers or on any systems that support standard Kerninghan & Richie C, for example, Amiga, Atari ST and any "big" machines updated: 1993/03/10 language: ? attribute grammar ? package: Alpha version: pre-release parts: semantic-analysis generator?, documentation(german) author: Andreas Koschinsky location: from author description: I have written a compiler generator. The generator is called Alpha and uses attribute grammars as specification calculus. Alpha is the result of a thesis at Technische Universitaet Berlin. I am looking for someone who would like to test and use Alpha. Alpha generates compilers from a compiler specification. This specification describes a compiler in terminology of attribute grammars. Parser and Scanner are generated by means of Bison and Flex. Alpha generates an ASE-evaluator (Jazayeri and Walter). The documentation is in german since it is a thesis at a german university. updated: 1993/02/16 language: awk (new) package: mawk version: 1.1.3 parts: interpreter author: Mike Brennan location: ftp public/mawk* from oxy.edu description: ? conformance: superset + RS can be a regular expression features: + faster than most new awks ports: sun3,sun4:sunos4.0.3 vax:bsd4.3,ultrix4.1 stardent3000:sysVR3 decstation:ultrix4.1 msdos:turboC++ status: actively developed contact: Mike Brennan updated: 1993/03/14 language: awk (new) package: GNU awk (gawk) version: 2.15.2 parts: interpreter, documentation author: David Trueman and Arnold Robbins location: ftp gawk-2.15.tar.Z from a GNU archive site description: ? conformance: superset including some Plan 9 features ports: unix, msdos:msc5.1 status: activly developed updated: 1993/05/19 language: BASIC package: bwBASIC (Bywater BASIC interpreter) version: 1.10 parts: interpreter, shell, ? author: Ted A. Campbell location: ftp pub/bywater/* from duke.cs.duke.edu description: The Bywater BASIC Interpreter (bwBASIC) implements a large superset of the ANSI Standard for Minimal BASIC (X3.60-1978) implemented in ANSI C, and offers a simple interactive environ- ment including some shell program facilities as an extension of BASIC. The interpreter has been compiled successfully on a range of ANSI C compilers on varying platforms with no alterations to source code necessary. ports: DOS, Unix, ? updated: 1992/11/05 language: BASIC package: ? basic ? version: ? parts: paser(yacc), interpreter author: ? location: comp.sources.unix archives volume 2 description: ? updated: ? language: BASIC package: ? bournebasic ? version: ? parts: interpreter author: ? location: comp.sources.misc archives volume 1 description: ? updated: ? language: BASIC package: ? basic ? version: ? parts: interpreter author: ? location: ftp ? from wsmr-simtel20.army.mil description: ? contact: ? updated: ? language: BASIC package: ubasic version: 8 parts: ? author: Yuji Kida location: ? ask archie ? description: ? reference: reviewed in Notices of the A.M.S #36 (May/June 1989), and "A math-oriented high-precision BASIC", #38 (3/91) contact: ? updated: 1992/07/06 language: BASIC package: ? version: ? parts: interpreter author: ? location: ftp pub/unix-c/languages/basic/basic.tar-z from oak.oakland.edu description: public domain version of DEC's MU-Basic with Microsoft Basic mixed together contact: ? updated: ? language: BCPL package: ? version: ? parts: ? author: ? location: ftp systems/amiga/programming/languages/BCPL/BCPL4Amiga.lzh from wuarchive.wustl.edu. description: The original INTCODE interpreter for BCPL. ports: Amiga, UNIX, MSDOS contact: ? updated: ? language: BCPL package: ? version: ? parts: ? author: ? location: ftp [.languages]bcpl.tar_z from ftp.syd.dit.csiro.au description: A BCPL* (Basic Combined Programming Language) compiler bootstrap kit with an INTCODE interpreter in C. contact: Ken Yap updated: ? language: BNF (Extended) package: TXL: Tree Transformation Language version: 6.0 parts: translator generator author: Jim Cordy location: ftp txl/00README for instructions from qusuna.qucis.queensu.ca description: + TXL is a generalized source-to-source translation system suitable for rapidly prototyping computer languages and language processors of any kind. It has been used to prototype several new programming languages as well as specification languages, command languages, and more traditional program transformation tasks such as constant folding, type inference, source optimization and reverse engineering. TXL takes as input an arbitrary context-free grammar in extended BNF-like notation, and a set of show-by-example transformation rules to be applied to inputs parsed using the grammar. updated: 1992/02/23 language: BNF (Extended) package: Gray version: 3 parts: parser generator(Forth) author: Martin Anton Ertl location: author; version 2 is on various ftp sites description: Gray is a parser generator written in Forth. It takes grammars in an extended BNF and produces executable Forth code for recursive descent parsers. There is no special support for error handling. requires: Forth ports: TILE Release 2 by Mikael Patel updated: 1992/05/22 language: BNF ?? package: ZUSE version: ? parts: parser generator(?) author: Arthur Pyster location: ? Univ Calif at Santa Barbara ? description: ll(1) paser generator requires: Pascal updated: 1986/09/23 language: BNF ?? package: FMQ version: ? parts: paser generator w/error corrector generator author: Jon Mauney location: ftp from csczar.ncsu.edu description: ? status: ? contact: ? updated: 1990/03/31 language: BNF ?? package: ATS (Attribute Translation System) version: ? parts: ? author: ? University of Saskatchewan ? location: ? description: generates table-driven LL(1) parsers with full insert-only error recovery. It also handles full left-attribute semantic handling, which is a dream compared to using YACC's parser actions. status: ? contact: ? (suggested: Dave Bocking ) updated: 1988/11/29 language: BNF (Extended) package: PCCTS (Purdue Compiler-Construction Tool Set) version: 1.06 parts: scanner generator, parser generator (LL(k)), documentation, tutorial author: Terence J. Parr , Will E. Cohen , Henry G. Dietz location: ftp pub/pccts/1.06 from marvin.ecn.purdue.edu UK: ftp /comput*/progra*/langu*/tools/pccts/* from src.doc.ic.ac.uk description: PCCTS is similar to a highly integrated version of YACC and LEX; where ANTLR (ANother Tool for Language Recognition) corresponds to YACC and DLG (DFA-based Lexical analyzer Generator) functions like LEX. However, PCCTS has many additional features which make it easier to use for a wide range of translation problems. PCCTS grammars contain specifications for lexical and syntactic analysis, semantic predicates, intermediate-form construction and error reporting. Rules may employ Extended BNF (EBNF) grammar constructs and may define parameters, return values and local variables. Languages described in PCCTS are recognized via LL(k) parsers constructed in pure, human-readable, C code. PCCTS parsers may be compiled with C++. ports: UNIX, DOS, OS/2 portability: very high contact: Terence J. Parr updated: 1992/12/14 language: COCOL (EBNF variant) package: COCO/R version: 1.28 parts: parser generator(LL(1)) author: Hanspeter Moessenboeck Port to Modula-2 done by Marc Brandis, Christof Brass and Pat Terry location: contact Hanspeter Moessenboeck or Pat Terry description: Coco/R generates recursive descent parsers and their associated scanners from attributed grammars. Coco/R can bootstrap itself to generate its own driver, parser, scanner, and semantic evaluator from the attributed grammar CR.ATG. This grammar thus serves as an an example of how to write compiler descriptions for Coco. There are also other simpler examples showing its use. bugs: MS-DOS related versions: Pat Terry Other: Hanspeter Moessenboeck requires: Oberon or Modula-2 ports: MS-DOS: TopSpeed Modula-2; FST 2.0; FST 3.1; StonyBrook QuickMod 2.2; Logitech 3.03. Macintosh: Apple MacMeth status: free to academic sites; commercial use requires a license updated: 1993/04/30 language: BNF (very extended), yacc package: PRE-CC Xtended version: 2.30 parts: library, parser generator (LL(oo)), translator(yacc->) author: ? location: ftp pub/Programs/preccx230* from ftp.comlab.ox.ac.uk description: PRECCX is an infinite-lookahead compiler compiler for context dependent grammars. The generated code is ANSI C. Specification scripts are in very EBNF with inherited and synthetic attributes allowed. Scripts can be compiled in separate modules, and linked together later. Meta-production rules allowed. The technology is essentially LL(oo) with optimizations. A converter for yacc scripts is available. ports: unix?, MS-DOS contact: Peter T. Breuer Jonathan Bowen updated: 1992/08/25 (later versions available by subscription) language: BNF ?? package: LLGen version: ? parts: parser generator author: ? Fischer and LeBlanc ? location: ? ftp from csczar.ncsu.edu ? description: LL(1) parser generator conformance: subset of FMQ reference: "Crafting A Compiler", by Fischer and LeBlanc status: ? contact: ? updated: 1990/03/31 language: BNF ?? package: wacco version: ? parts: parser generator author: ? location: comp.sources.misc volume ? description: LL(?) parser generator contact: ? updated: ? language: BNF (Extended), BNF (yacc), Modula-2 package: GMD Toolbox for Compiler Construction (aka Cocktail) version: 9209 parts: parser generator (LALR -> C, Modula-2), documentation, parser generator (LL(1) -> C, Modula-2), tests, scanner generator (-> C, Modula-2), tests translator (Extended BNF -> BNF), translator (Modula-2 -> C), translator (BNF (yacc) -> Extended BNF), examples abstract syntax tree generator, attribute-evaluator generator, author: ? location: ftp pub/cocktail/dos from ftp.karlsruhe.gmd.de OS/2: ftp.eb.ele.tue.nl/pub/src/cocktail/dos-os2.zoo description: A huge set of compiler building tools. requires: (ms-dos only) DJ Delorie's DOS extender (go32) (OS/2 only) emx programming environment for OS/2 ports: msdos, unix, os/2 discussion: subscribe to Cocktail using listserv@eb.ele.tue.nl contact: Josef Grosch OS/2: Willem Jan Withagen updated: 1992/10/01 language: BNF ???? package: T-gen version: 2.1 parts: parser generator, documentation, ? author: Justin Graver location: ftp pub/st80_r41/T-gen2.1/* from st.cs.uiuc.edu description: T-gen is a general-purpose object-oriented tool for the automatic generation of string-to-object translators. It is written in Smalltalk and lives in the Smalltalk programming environment. T-gen supports the generation of both top-down (LL) and bottom-up (LR) parsers, which will automatically generate derivation trees, abstract syntax trees, or arbitrary Smalltalk objects. The simple specification syntax and graphical user interface are intended to enhance the learning, comprehension, and usefulness of T-gen. requires: Smalltalk-80 ports: ParcPlace Objectworks/Smalltalk 4.0 & 4.1 updated: 1992/10/18 language: BNF package: Eli Compiler Construction System version: 3.4.2 parts: ?????, translator(WEB->BNF?) author: ? location: ftp pub/cs/distribs/eli/* from ftp.cs.colorado.edu description: Eli integrates off-the-shelf tools and libraries with specialized language processors to generate complete compilers quickly and reliably. It simplifies the development of new special-purpose languages, implementation of existing languages on new hardware and extension of the constructs and features of existing languages. ports: Sun-3/SunOS4.1 Sun-4/SunOS4.1.2 RS/6000/AIX3 Mips/Ultrix4.2 HP9000/300/HP-UX8.00 HP9000/700/HP-UX8.07 discussion: contact: , updated: 1993/02/11 language: Milarepa package: Milarepa Perl/BNF Parser version: Prototype 1.0 parts: parser-generator, examples, tutorial author: Jeffrey Kegler location: comp.lang.perl, direct by E-mail. The author is seeking an FTP site to hold the software. description: Milarepa takes a source grammar in the Milarepa language (a straightforward mix of BNF and Perl) and generates a Perl file, which, when enclosed in a simple wrapper, parses some third language described by the source grammar. This is intended to be a real hacker's parser. It is not restricted to LR(k), and the parse logic follows directly from the BNF. It handles ambiguous grammars, ambiguous tokens (tokens which were not positively identified by the lexer) and allows the programmer to change the start symbol. The grammar may not be left recursive. The input must be divided into sentences of a finite maximum length. There is no fixed distinction between terminals and non-terminals, that is, a symbol can both match the input AND be on the left hand side of a production. Multiple Marpa grammars are allowed in a single perl program. It's only a prototype primarily due to poor speed. This is intended to be remedied after Perl 5.0 is out. requires: perl updated: 1993/03/17 language: BNF (yacc) package: NewYacc version: 1.0 parts: parser generator, documenation author: Jack Callahan location: ftp src/newyacc.1.0.*.Z from flubber.cs.umd.edu description: [someone want to fill it in? --muir] reference: see Dec 89 CACM for a brief overview of NewYacc. updated: 1992/02/10 language: BNF (yacc) package: bison version: 1.18 parts: parser generator, documentation author: Robert Corbett ? location: ftp bison-1.16.tar.Z from a GNU archive site description: ? bugs: bug-gnu-utils@prep.ai.mit.edu restriction: !! will apply the GNU General Public License to *your* code !! ports: unix, atari, ? updated: 1992/01/28 language: BNF (yacc) package: ? jaccl ? version: ? parts: parser generator author: Dave Jones location: ? description: a LR(1) parser generator updated: 1989/09/08 language: BNF (yacc) package: byacc (Berkeley Yacc) version: 1.9 parts: parser generator author: Robert Corbett location: ftp pub/byacc.tar.1.9.Z from vangogh.CS.Berkeley.EDU description: probably the best yacc variant around. Previously known as Zoo, and before that, as Zeus. updated: 1993/02/22 language: BNF (yacc), Ada package: aflex-ayacc version: 1.2a parts: parser generator (Ada), scanner generator (Ada) author: IRUS (Irvine Research Unit in Software) location: ftp pub/irus/aflex-ayacc_1.2a.tar.Z from liege.ics.uci.edu description: Lex and Yacc equivalents that produce Ada output announcements: irus-software-request@ics.uci.edu contact: irus-software-request@ics.uci.edu updated: 1993/01/06 language: BNF (variant), Icon package: Ibpag2 (Icon-Based Parser Generation System 2) version: 1.0 (beta) parts: parser generator (Icon, SLR(1)) author: Richard L. Goerwitz location: alt.sources archive, also: latest version direct from author. description: Ibpag2 is a parser generator for Icon. It does most of what you would expect. Latest version can handle both SLR(1) and even GLR (Tomita) grammars. ports: unix portability: ? (UNIX dependencies?) updated: 1993/05/23 language: BNF package: lalr.ss - An LALR(1) parser generator version: 0.9 parts: parser generator author: Mark Johnson (mj@cs.brown.edu) location: Posted on comp.lang.scheme May 1993 or June 1993 under "LALR parser generator code" description: A LALR(1) parser generator written in Scheme. requires: Scheme updated: 1993/05/24 language: BURS ? package: Iburg version: ? parts: parser generator? author: Christopher W. Fraser , David R. Hanson , Todd A. Proebsting location: ftp pub/iburg.tar.Z from ftp.cs.princeton.edu description: Iburg is a program that generates a fast tree parser. It is compatible with Burg. Both programs accept a cost-augmented tree grammar and emit a C program that discovers an optimal parse of trees in the language described by the grammar. They have been used to construct fast optimal instruction selectors for use in code generation. Burg uses BURS; Iburg's matchers do dynamic programming at compile time. updated: 1993/02/10 language: C, C++, Objective-C, RTL package: GNU CC (gcc) version: 2.4.5 parts: compiler, runtime, examples, documentation Library listed separately author: Richard Stallman and others location: ftp gcc-2.4.5.tar.gz from a GNU archive site description: A very high quality, very portable compiler for C, C++, Objective-C. The compiler is designed to support multiple front-ends and multiple back-ends by translating first into RTL (Register Transfer Language) and from there into assembly for the target architecture. Front ends for Ada, Pascal, and Fortran are all under development. conformance: C: superset of K&R C and ANSI C. C++: not exactly cfront 3.0? [could someone tell me which version of cfront it is equivalent to, if any? --muir] Objective-C: ? bugs: gnu.gcc.bug restriction: Copyleft ports: 3b1, a29k, aix385, alpha, altos3068, amix, arm, convex, crds, elxsi, fx2800, fx80, genix, hp320, clipper, i386-{dos,isc,sco,sysv.3,sysv.4,mach,bsd,linux,windows,OS/2}, iris,i860, i960, irix4, m68k, m88ksvsv.3, mips-news, mot3300, next, ns32k, nws3250-v.4, hp-pa, pc532, plexus, pyramid, romp, rs6000, sparc-sunos, sparc-solaris2, sparc-sysv.4, spur, sun386, tahoe, tow, umpis, vax-vms, vax-bsd, we32k, hitachi-{SH,8300} portability: very high in the theory, somewhat annoying in practice status: actively developed discussion: gnu.gcc.help announcements: gnu.gcc.announce updated: 1993/06/20 language: C package: GNU C Library version: 1.06 parts: library author: ? location: ftp glibc-1.06.tar.Z from a GNU archive site Source for "crypt" must be FTP'ed from non-USA site if you are outside the USA (site: glibc-1.06-crypt.tar.z from ftp.uni-c.dk [129.142.6.74]). description: The run-time library for the GNU C compiler, gcc. The source for libc.a. This package is separately maintained. conformance: ANSI and POSIX.1 superset. Large subset of POSIX.2 bugs: Reports sent to mailing list bug-glibc@prep.ai.mit.edu. updated: 1993/06/25 language: C package: c68/c386 version: 4.2a parts: compiler author: Matthew Brandt, Christoph van Wuellen, Keith and Dave Walker location: ftp pub/Minix/common-pkgs/c386-4.2.tar.Z from bugs.nosc.mil description: K&R C plus prototypes and other ANSI features. targetted to several 68k and i386 assemblers, incl. gas. floating point support by inline code or emulation. lots of available warnings. better code generation than ACK. ports: 386 and 68k Minix. generic unix actually. status: actively worked on by the Walkers. discussion: comp.os.min updated: ? language: C package: GNU superoptimizer version: 2.2 parts: exhaustive instruction sequence optimizer author: Torbjorn Granlund with Tom Wood location: ftp superopt-2.2.tar.Z from a GNU archive site description: GSO is a function sequence generator that uses an exhaustive generate-and-test approach to find the shortest instruction sequence for a given function. You have to tell the superoptimizer which function and which CPU you want to get code for. This is useful for compiler writers. bugs: Torbjorn Granlund restriction: Copyleft ports: Alpha, Sparc, i386, 88k, RS/6000, 68k, 29k, Pyramid(SP,AP,XP) updated: 1993/02/16 language: C package: xdbx version: 2.1 parts: X11 front end for dbx author: ? location: retrieve xxgdb from comp.sources.x volumes 11, 12, 13, 14, & 16 description: ? contact: Po Cheung updated: 1992/02/22 language: C package: ups version: 2.1 parts: interpreter, symbolic debugger, tests, documentation author: Mark Russell location: ? ftp from contrib/ups*.tar.Z from export.lcs.mit.edu ? unofficial: unofficial enhancements by Rod Armstrong , available by ftp misc/unix/ups/contrib/rob from sj.ate.slb.com description: Ups is a source level C debugger that runs under X11 or SunView. Ups includes a C interpreter which allows you to add fragments of code simply by editing them into the source window bugs: Mark Russell ports: Sun, Decstation, VAX(ultrix), HLH Clipper discussion: ups-users-request@ukc.ac.uk updated: 1991/05/20 language: C package: C_Interp version: ? parts: interpreter author: ? location: ftp Mac/Misc/C_Interp.sit from oac2.hsc.uth.tmc.edu description: "I've made the C Interpreter that I mentioned in a previous posting available for anonymous FTP" [ Where did this come from? Does this include source? What is it really called? Who is the real contact? --muir] contact: Chuck Shotton ? updated: 1993/05/14 language: C (ANSI) package: lcc version: 1.8 parts: compiler, test suite, documentation author: Dave Hanson location: ftp pub/lcc/lccfe-*.tar.Z from princeton.edu description: + hand coded C parser (faster than yacc) + retargetable + code "as good as GCC" ports: vax (mips, sparc, 68k backends are commercial) status: small-scale production use using commerical backends; the commercial backends are cheap (free?) to universities. discussion: lcc-requests@princeton.edu updated: 1992/02/20 language: C, Chop ?, lcc ? package: Chop version: 0.6 parts: code generator author: Alan L. Wendt location: ftp pub/chop/0.6.tar.Z from beethoven.cs.colostate.edu description: The current revision, 0.6, is interfaced with Fraser and Hanson's lcc front end. The result is a highly fast C compiler with good code selection and no global optimization. Project Status: Chop compiles and runs a number of small test programs on the Vax. I'm currently updating the NS32k and 68K retargets for lcc compatibility. After I get them working, I'll work on getting the system to compile itself, get struct assignments working, improve the code quality and compile speed, and run the SPEC benchmarks. That will be rev 1.0. reference: "Fast Code Generation Using Automatically-Generated Decision Trees", ACM SIGPLAN '90 PLDI updated: 1993/04/28 language: C package: GCT version: 1.4 parts: test-coverage-preprocessor author: Brian Marick location: ftp pub/testing/gct.file/ftp.* from cs.uiuc.edu description: GCT is test-coverage tool based on GNU C. Coverage tools measure how thoroughly a test suite exercises a program. restriction: CopyLeft ports: sun3, sun4, rs/6000, 68k, 88k, hp-pa, ibm 3090, ultrix, convex, sco discussion: Gct-Request@cs.uiuc.edu support: commercial support available from author, (217) 351-7228 updated: 1993/02/12 language: C package: MasPar mpl, ampl version: 3.1 parts: compiler author: ? location: ftp put/mpl-* from maspar.maspar.com description: mpl & ampl - the intrinsic parallel languages for MasPar's machines are C (ampl is actually a gcc port these days). You can get the source from marpar.com. contact: ? updated: ? language: C package: dsp56k-gcc version: ? parts: compiler author: ? location: ftp pub/ham/dsp/dsp56k-tools/dsp56k-gcc.tar.Z from nic.funet.fi Australia: ftp pub/micros/56k/g56k.tar.Z from evans.ee.adfa.oz.au description: A port of gcc 1.37.1 to the Motorola DSP56000 done by Motorola contact: ? updated: ? language: C package: dsp56165-gcc version: ? parts: compiler author: Andrew Sterian location: ftp usenet/alt.sources/? from wuarchive.wustl.edu description: A port of gcc 1.40 to the Motorola DSP56156 and DSP56000. updated: ? language: C package: Harvest C version: 2.1 parts: ? author: ? location: ftp mac/development/languages/harves* from archive.umich.edu description: ? ports: Macintosh contact: Eric W. Sink updated: 1992/05/26 language: C, C++ package: Xcoral version: 1.72 parts: editor author: ? location: ftp X/contrib/clients/xcoral* from ftp.inria.fr description: Xcoral is a multiwindows mouse-based text editor, for X Window System, with a built-in browser to navigate through C functions and C++ classes hierarchies... Xcoral provides variables width fonts, menus, scrollbars, buttons, search, regions, kill-buffers and 3D look. Commands are accessible from menus or standard key bindings. Xcoral is a direct Xlib client and run on color/bw X Display. contact: ? updated: 1993/03/14 language: C++ package: aard ??? version: ? parts: memory use tracer author: ? location: ftp pub/aard.tar.Z from wilma.cs.brown.edu description: We have a prototype implementation of a tool to do memory checking. It works by keeping track of the typestate of each byte of memory in the heap and the stack. The typestate can be one of Undefined, Uninitialized, Free or Set. The program can detect invalid transitions (i.e. attempting to set or use undefined or free storage or attempting to access uninitialized storage). In addition, the program keeps track of heap management through malloc and free and at the end of the run will report all memory blocks that were not freed and that are not accessible (i.e. memory leaks). The tools works using a spliced-in shared library. requires: Sparc, C++ 3.0.1, SunOS 4.X contact: Steve Reiss updated: ? language: C++ package: ET++ version: 3.0-alpha parts: class libraries, documentation author: ? location: ftp C++/ET++/* from iamsun.unibe.ch description: ? contact: Erich Gamma updated: 1992/10/26 language: C++ package: C++ grammar version: ? parts: parser (yacc) author: ? location: comp.sources.misc volume ? description: [is this a copy of the Roskind grammer or something else? --muir] updated: 1991/10/23 language: C++ package: cppp version: 1.14 parts: parser (yacc) author: Tony Davis (ted@cs.brown.edu) location: wilma.cs.brown.edu:/pub/cppp.tar.Z description: A compiler front-end for C++, with complete semantic processing. Outputs abstract syntax graph. restriction: Permission needed for incorporation into commercial software. requires: Native C++ compiler, lex, yacc, make, sed (or hand editing) status: Upgrading the back end. updated: 1993/05/26 language: C++ package: C++ Object Oriented Library version: COOL ?, GECOOL 2.1, JCOOL 0.1 parts: libraries, tests, documentation author: ? location: GECOOL, JCOOL: ftp pub/COOL/* from cs.utexas.edu COOL: ftp pub/COOL.tar.Z from csc.ti.com description: A C++ class library developed at Texas Instruments. Cool contains a set of containers like Vectors, List, Has_Table, etc. It uses a shallow hierarchy with no common base class. The funtionality is close to Common Lisp data structures (like libg++). The template syntax is very close to Cfront3.x and g++2.x. Can build shared libraries on Suns. JCOOL's main difference from COOL and GECOOL is that it uses real C++ templates instead of a similar syntax that is preprocessed by a special 'cpp' distributed with COOL and GECOOL. ports: ? contact: Van-Duc Nguyen updated: 1992/08/05 language: C++ package: ??? A C++ Parser toolkit version: ? parts: library author: Mayan Moudgill location: ftp pub/Parse.shar from ftp.cs.cornell.edu description: A collection of C++ classes that make building a recursive descent parser/scanner very easy. ports: Sun 4 with cfront 3.0, portability: uses mmap(); probably low. updated: 1993/04/11 language: C++, Extended C++ package: EC++ version: ? parts: translator(C++), documentation author: Glauco Masotti location: ? ftp languages/c++/EC++.tar.Z from ftp.uu.net ? description: EC++ is a preprocessor that translates Extended C++ into C++. The extensions include: + preconditions, postconditions, and class invariants + parameterized classes + exception handling + garbage collection status: ? updated: 1989/10/10 language: C++ package: LEDA version: 3.0 parts: libraries author: ? location: ftp pub/LEDA/* from ftp.cs.uni-sb.de description: library of efficient data types and algorithms. New with 3.0: both template and non-template versions. contact: Stefan N"aher updated: 1992/11/30 language: E (a persistent C++ variant) package: GNU E version: 2.3.3 parts: compiler author: ? location: ftp exodus/E/gnu_E* from ftp.cs.wisc.edu description: GNU E is a persistent, object oriented programming language developed as part of the Exodus project. GNU E extends C++ with the notion of persistent data, program level data objects that can be transparently used across multiple executions of a program, or multiple programs, without explicit input and output operations. GNU E's form of persistence is based on extensions to the C++ type system to distinguish potentially persistent data objects from objects that are always memory resident. An object is made persistent either by its declaration (via a new "persistent" storage class qualifier) or by its method of allocation (via persistent dynamic allocation using a special overloading of the new operator). The underlying object storage system is the Exodus storage manager, which provides concurrency control and recovery in addition to storage for persistent data. restriction: Copyleft; not all runtime sources are available (yet) requires: release 2.1.1 of the Exodus storage manager contact: exodus@cs.wisc.edu updated: 1993/01/20 language: C (ANSI) package: ? 1984 ANSI C to K&R C preprocessor ? version: ? parts: translator(K&R C) author: ? location: from comp.sources.unix archive volume 1 description: ? status: ? updated: ? language: C (ANSI) package: unproto ? version: ? 4 ? 1.6 ? parts: translator(K&R C) author: Wietse Venema location: ftp pub/unix/unproto4.shar.Z from ftp.win.tue.nl description: ? contact: ? updated: ? language: C (ANSI) package: cproto version: ? parts: translator(K&R C) author: Chin Huang location: from comp.sources.misc archive volume 29 description: cproto generates function prototypes from function definitions. It can also translate function definition heads between K&R style and ANSI C style. ports: UNIX, MS-DOS updated: 1992/07/18 language: C (ANSI) package: cextract version: 1.7 parts: translator(K&R C), header file generator author: Adam Bryant location: ftp from any comp.sources.reviewed archive description: A C prototype extractor, it is ideal for generating header files for large multi-file C programs, and will provide an automated method for generating all of the prototypes for all of the functions in such a program. It may also function as a rudimentary documentation extractor, generating a sorted list of all functions and their locations ports: Unix, VMS updated: 1992/11/03 language: ANSI C package: cgram version: ? parts: grammar author: Mohd Hanafiah Abdullah location: ftp pub/comp.compilers/cgram-ll1.Z from primost.cs.wisc.edu description: An ANSI C grammar in LL(k) (1 <= k <= 2). It's written in Scheme, so you need to have a Scheme interpreter to process the grammar using a program (f-f-d.s) that extracts the FIRST/FOLLOW/DIRECTOR sets. requires: Scheme ports: ? updated: ? language: C, ANSI C, C++ package: The Roskind grammars version: cpp5 (cf2.0) parts: parser(yacc), documenation author: Jim Roskind location: ftp pub/gnu/c++grammar2.0.tar.Z from ics.uci.edu ftp pub/C++/c++grammar2.0.tar.Z from mach1.npac.syr.edu description: The C grammar is CLEAN, it does not use %prec, %assoc, and has only one shift-reduce conflict. The C++ grammar has a few conflicts. Also included is an extension to byacc that produces graphical parse trees automatically. conformance: the C grammar si true ANSI; the C++ grammar supports cfront 2.0 constructs. requires: byacc 1.8 (for graphical parse trees) status: actively developed updated: 1991/07/01 language: C, C++ package: xxgdb version: 1.06 parts: X11 front end for gdb author: ? location: retrieve xxgdb from comp.sources.x volumes 11, 12, 13, 14, & 16 description: ? contact: Pierre Willard updated: 1992/02/22 language: C, C++ package: gdb version: 4.9 parts: symbolic debugger, documentation author: many, but most recently Stu Grossman and John Gilmore of Cygnus Support location: ftp gdb-*.tar.[zZ] from a GNU archive site description: ? bugs: restriction: CopyLeft ports: most unix variants, vms, vxworks, amiga, msdos updated: 1993/05/12 language: Duel (a C debugging language) package: DUEL version: 1.10 parts: interpreter author: Michael Golan location: ftp duel/* from ftp.cs.princeton.edu description: DUEL acts as front end to gdb. It implements a language designed for debbuging C programs. It maily features efficient ways to select and display data items. It is normally linked into the gdb executable, but could stand alone. It interprets a subset of C in addition to its own language. requires: gdb status: author is pushing the system hard. updated: 1993/03/15 language: C, C++, Objective C package: emx programming environment for OS/2 version: 0.8f parts: gcc, g++, gdb, libg++, .obj linkage, DLL, headers author: Ebenhard Mattes location: ftp pub/os2/2.0/programming/emx-0.8f from ftp-os2.nmsu.edu Europe: ftp soft/os2/emx-0.8f from rusmv1.rus.uni-stuttgart.de description: ? discussion: subscribe to emxlist using listserv@ludd.luth.se updated: 1992/09/21 language: C package: PART's C Pthreads version: ? parts: library author: PART (POSIX / Ada-Runtime Project) location: ftp pub/PART/pthreads* from ftp.cs.fsu.edu description: As part of the PART project we have been designing and implementing a library package of preemptive threads which is compliant with POSIX 1003.4a Draft 6. A description of the interface for our Pthreads library is now available on ftp. Our implementation is limited to the Sun SPARC architecture and SunOS 4.1.x. We do not make any use of Sun's light-weight processes to achieve better performance (with one I/O-related exception). restriction: GNU Library General Public License discussion: send "Subject: subscribe-pthreads" to mueller@uzu.cs.fsu.edu contact: pthreads-bugs@ada.cs.fsu.edu updated: 1993/03/05 language: C, nroff package: c2man version: 2.03 parts: documentation generator (C -> nroff -man) author: Graham Stoney location: comp.sources.reviewed archive volume 3 description: c2man is a program for generating Unix style manual pages in nroff -man format directly from ordinary comments embedded in C source code updated: 1993/05/18 language: Small-C package: smallc version: ? parts: compiler author: ? location: ?, comp.sources.unix volume 5 description: Small-C is a subset of the C programming language for which a number of public-domain compilers have been written. The original compiler was written by Ron Cain and appeared in the May 1980 issue of Dr.Dobb's Journal. More recently, James E.Hendrix has improved and extended the original Small-C compiler and published "The Small-C Handbook", ISBN 0-8359-7012-4 (1984). Both compilers produce 8080 assembly language, which is the most popular implementation of Small-C to-date. My 6502 Small-C compiler for the BBC Micro is based on "RatC", a version of the original Ron Cain compiler described by R.E.Berry and B.A.Meekings in "A Book on C", ISBN 0-333-36821-5 (1984). The 6502 compiler is written in Small-C and was bootstrapped using Zorland C on an Amstrad PC1512 under MSDOS 3.2, then transferred onto a BBC Micro using Kermit. The compiler can be used to cross-compile 6502 code from an MSDOS host, or as a 'resident' Small-C compiler on a BBC Micro. conformance: subset of C ports: 68k, 6809, VAX, 8080, BBC Micro, Z80 updated: 1989/01/05 language: C-Refine, C++-Refine, *-Refine package: crefine version: 3.0 parts: pre-processor, documentation author: Lutz Prechelt location: aquire from any comp.sources.reviewed archive description: C-Refine is a preprocessor for C and languages that vaguely resemble C's syntax. It allows symbolic naming of code fragments so as to redistribute complexity and provide running commentary. ports: unix, msdos, atari, amiga. portability: high updated: 1992/07/16 language: CAML (Categorical Abstract Machine Language) package: CAML version: 3.1 parts: ? author: ? location: ? ftp lang/caml from ftp.inria.fr ? description: CAML is a language belonging to the ML family including: + lexical binding discipline + static type inference + user-defined (sum and product) types + possibly lazy data structures + possibly mutable data structures + interface with the Yacc parser generator + pretty-printing tools + and a complete library. bugs: weis@margaux.inria.fr or caml@margaux.inria.fr ports: Sun-3 Sun-4 Sony-68k Sony-R3000 Decstation Mac-A/UX Apollo portability: ? status: ? discussion: ? updated: ? language: Caml Light package: Caml Light version: 0.4 parts: bytecode compiler, runtime, scanner generator, parser generator author: Xavier Leroy location: ftp lang/caml-light/* from ftp.inria.fr description: ? conformance: subset of CAML features: very small, but five to ten times slower than SML-NJ ports: most unix, Macintosh, Amiga, MSDOS portability: very high contact: Xavier Leroy updated: 1991/10/05 language: CASE-DSP (Computer Aided Software Eng. for Digital Signal Proc) package: Ptolemy version: 0.4.1 parts: grahpical algorithm layout, code generator, simulator author: ? location: ftp pub/ptolemy/* from ptolemy.bekeley.edu description: Ptolemy provides a highly flexible foundation for the specification, simulation, and rapid prototyping of systems. It is an object oriented framework within which diverse models of computation can co-exist and interact. For example, using Ptolemy a data-flow system can be easily connected to a hardware simulator which in turn may be connected to a discrete-event system, etc. Because of this, Ptolemy can be used to model entire systems. In addition, Ptolemy now has code generation capabilities. From a flow graph description, Ptolemy can generate both C code and DSP assembly code for rapid prototyping. Note that code generation is not yet complete, and is included in the current release for demonstration purposes only. requires: C++, C ports: Sun-4, MIPS/Ultrix; DSP56001, DSP96002. status: active research project discussion: ptolemy-hackers-request@ohm.berkeley.edu contact: ptolemy@ohm.berkeley.edu updated: 1993/04/22 language: Cellang (Cellular Automata) package: Cellular version: 2.0 parts: byte-code compiler, runtime, viewer author: J Dana Eckart location: comp.sources.unix, volume 26 description: A system for cellular automata programming. updated: 1993/04/03 language: Concurrent Clean package: The Concurrent Clean System version: 0.8.1 parts: development environment, documentation, compiler(byte-code), compiler(native), interpreter(byte-code), examples author: Research Institute for Declarative Systems, University of Nijmegen location: ftp pub/Clean/* from ftp.cs.kun.nl description: The Concurrent Clean system is a programming environment for the functional language Concurrent Clean, developed at the University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands. The system is one of the fastest implementations of functional languages available at the moment. Its I/O libraries make it possible to do modern, yet purely functional I/O (including windows, menus, dialogs etc.) in Concurrent Clean. With the Concurrent Clean system it is possible to develop real-life applications in a purely functional language. * lazy and purely functional * strongly typed - based on Milner/Mycroft scheme * module structure * modern I/O * programmer-infulenced evaluation order by annotations ports: Sun-3, Sun-4, Macintosh contact: clean@cs.kun.nl updated: 1992/11/07 language: Dylan package: Thomas version: ? first public release ? parts: translator(Scheme) author: Matt Birkholz , Jim Miller , Ron Weiss location: ftp pub/DEC/Thomas from gatekeeper.pa.dec.com description: Thomas, a compiler written at Digital Equipment Corporation's Cambridge Research Laboratory compiles a language compatible with the language described in the book "Dylan(TM) an object-oriented dynamic language" by Apple Computer Eastern Research and Technology, April 1992. It does not perform well. Thomas is NOT Dylan(TM). requires: Scheme ports: MIT's CScheme, DEC's Scheme->C, Marc Feeley's Gambi, Mac, PC, Vax, MIPS, Alpha, 680x0 updated: 1992/09/11 language: E package: Amiga E version: 2.1b parts: compiler, assembler, linker, utilities author: Wouter van Oortmerssen location: ftp amiga/dev/lang/AmigaE21b.lha from amiga.physik.unizh.ch description: An Amiga specific E compiler. E is a powerful and flexible procedural programming language and Amiga E a very fast com- piler for it, with features such as compilation speed of 20000 lines/minute on a 7 Mhz amiga, inline assembler and linker integrated into compiler, large set of integrated functions, module concept with 2.04 includes as modules, flexible type-system, quoted expressions, immediate and typed lists, low level polymorphism, exception handling and much, much more. Written in Assembly and E. ports: Amiga portability: not portable at all status: actively developed discussion: comp.sys.amiga.programmer (sometimes) updated: 1993/03/01 language: EDIF (Electronic Design Interchange Format) package: Berkeley EDIF200 version: 7.6 parts: translator-building toolkit author: Wendell C. Baker and Prof A. Richard Newton of the Electronics Research Laboratory, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at the University of California, Berkeley, CA location: ftp from pub/edif in ic.berkeley.edu description: ? restriction: no-profit w/o permission ports: ? updated: 1990/07 language: EDIF package: University of Manchester EDIF BNF grammar version: 3.0 0 parts: BNF grammar, documentation author: ? Nigel Whitaker (nigelw@cs.man.ac.uk) location: ftp pub/edif from edif.cs.man.ac.uk description: Parser/Syntax checker for EDIF written in ANSI-C updated: 1993/06/16 language: Eiffel package: ? version: ? parts: source checker author: Olaf Langmack and Burghardt Groeber location: ftp pub/heron/ep.tar.Z from ftp.fu-berlin.de description: A compiler front-end for Eiffel-3 is available. It has been generated automatically with the Karlsruhe toolbox for compiler construction according to the most recent public language definition. The parser derives an easy-to-use abstract syntax tree, supports elementary error recovery and provides a precise source code indication of errors. It performs a strict syntax check and analyses 4000 lines of source code per second on a Sun-SPARC workstation. updated: 1992/12/14 language: EuLisp package: Feel (Free and Eventually Eulisp) version: 0.75 parts: interpreter, documentation author: Pete Broadbery location: ftp pub/eulisp from ftp.bath.ac.uk description: + integrated object system + a module system + parallelism + interfaces to PVM library, tcp/ip sockets, futures, Linda, and CSP. ports: most unix portability: high, but can use shared memory and threads if available updated: 1992/09/14 language: FMPL of Accardi package: FMPL interpreter version: 1 parts: interpreter, documentation author: Jon Blow location: ftp src/local/fmpl/* from xcf.berkeley.edu description: FMPL is an experimental prototype-based object-oriented programming language developed at the Experimental Computing Facility of the University of California, Berkeley. + lambda-calculus based constructs. + event-driven (mainly I/O events) updated: 1992/06/02 language: FORTH package: TILE Forth version: 2.1 parts: interpreter author: Mikael Patel location: ftp tile-forth-2.1.tar.Z from a GNU archive site description: Forth interpreter in C; many Forth libraries conformance: Forth83 restriction: shareware/GPL ports: unix updated: 1991/11/13 language: FORTH package: cforth version: ? parts: interpreter author: ? location: comp.sources.unix archive volume 1 description: ? updated: ? language: FORTH package: F68K version: ? parts: ? author: ? location: ftp atari/Languages/f68k.* from archive.umich.edu description: a portable Forth system for Motorola 68k computers ports: Atari ST/TT, Amiga, Sinclair QL and OS9 portability: very high for 68000 based systems contact: Joerg Plewe updated: 1992/12/14 language: FORTH package: 51forth version: ? parts: ? author: Scott Gehmlich location: ftp giovanni/51forth.zip from [130.123.96.9] description: source and documentation for a 8051 subroutine- threaded forth contact: ? updated: 1993/04/03 language: Kevo (Forth-like) package: kevo version: 0.9b6 parts: interpreter, demo programs, user's guide, papers author: Antero Taivalsaari location: ftp /pub/kevo/* from cs.uta.fi description: Kevo is a prototype-based object-oriented language for Macintosh Kevo features a unique prototype-based object model (which is based neither on classes nor Self-style delegation), multitasking (both preemptive and cooperative), dynamic memory management, and an icon-based object browser and editor modeled loosely after Mac Finder. Kevo has been built around a portable threaded code interpreter, and is syntactically a close derivative of Forth. ports: Macintosh contact: kevo-interest@ursamajor.uvic.ca updated: 1993/05/18 language: Forth, Yerk package: Yerk version: 3.62 parts: ? author: ? location: ftp pub/Yerk/? from oddjob.uchicago.edu description: Yerk is an object oriented language based on a Forth Kernel with some major modifications. It was originally known as Neon, developed and sold as a product by Kriya Systems from 1985 to 1989. Several of us at The University of Chicago have maintained Yerk since its demise as a product. Because of the possible trademark conflict that Kriya mentions, we picked the name Yerk, which is at least not an acronym for anything, but rather stands for Yerkes Observatory, part of the Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics at U of C. updated: ? language: Forth? package: Mops version: 2.3 parts: ? author: ? location: ftp pub/Yerk/? from oddjob.uchicago.edu description: ??? updated: 1993/03/22 language: Fortran package: f2c version: ? parts: translator(C) author: ? location: ftp ft2/? from netlib@research.att.com description: ? bugs: dmg@research.att.com updated: ? 1991/02/16 ? language: Fortran package: Floppy version: ? parts: ? author: ? location: ffccc in comp.sources.misc archive volume 12 description: ? contact: ? updated: 1992/08/04 language: Fortran package: Flow version: ? parts: ? author: Julian James Bunn location: comp.sources.misc archive volume 31 description: The Flow program is a companion to Floppy, it allows the user to produce various reports on the structure of Fortran 77 code, such as flow diagrams and common block tables. requires: Floppy ports: VMS, Unix, CMS updated: ? language: Fortran package: Adaptor (Automatic DAta Parallelism TranslatOR) version: ? parts: translator(Fortran), documentation author: ? location: ftp gmd/adaptor/* from ftp.gmd.de description: Adaptor is a tool that transforms data parallel programs written in Fortran with array extensions, parallel loops, and layout directives to parallel programs with explicit message passing. ADAPTOR is not a compiler but a source to source transformation that generates Fortran 77 host and node programs with message passing. The new generated source codes have to be compiled by the compiler of the parallel machine. ports: Alliant FX/2800, iPSC/860, Net of Sun-4 or RS/6000 Workstations (based on PVM), Parsytec GCel, Meiko Concerto contact: Thomas Brandes updated: 1992/10/17 language: Fortran, C package: cfortran.h version: 2.6 parts: macros, documentation, examples author: Burkhard Burow location: ftp cfortran/* from zebra.desy.de description: cfortran.h is an easy-to-use powerful bridge between C and FORTRAN. It provides a completely transparent, machine independent interface between C and FORTRAN routines and global data. cfortran.h provides macros which allow the C preprocessor to translate a simple description of a C (Fortran) routine or global data into a Fortran (C) interface. reference: reviewed in RS/Magazine November 1992 and a user's experiences with cfortran.h are to be described in the 1/93 issue of Computers in Physics. ports: VAX VMS or Ultrix, DECstation, Silicon Graphics, IBM RS/6000, Sun, CRAY, Apollo, HP9000, LynxOS, f2c, NAG f90. portability: high contact: burow@vxdesy.cern.ch updated: 1992/04/12 language: Fortran package: fsplit version: ? parts: ? author: ? location: ? description: a tool to split up monolithic fortran programs updated: ? language: Fortran package: ? version: ? parts: ? author: Steve Mccrea location: ? description: a tool to split up monolithic fortran programs requires: new awk updated: ? language: FP package: ? funcproglang ? version: ? parts: translator(C) author: ? location: comp.sources.unix archive volume 13 description: ? Backus Functional Programming ? updated: ? language: Garnet ?? package: Garnet version: 2.1 alpha parts: ? author: ? location: ftp from /usr/garnet/? from a.gp.cs.cmu.edu description: ? contact: ? updated: ? language: Garnet package: Multi-Garnet version: 2.1 parts: ? author: Michael Sannella location: ftp /usr/garnet/alpha/src/contrib/multi-garnet from a.gp.cs.cmu.edu description: better contstraint system for Garnet ?? updated: 1992/09/21 language: Glish package: glish version: 2.2.2 parts: interpreter? author: Vern Paxson location: ftp glish/glish-2.2.2.tar.Z from ftp.ee.lbl.gov description: Glish is an interpretive language for building loosely-coupled distributed systems from modular, event-oriented programs. These programs are written in conventional languages such as C, C++, or Fortran. Glish scripts can create local and remote processes and control their communication. Glish also provides a full, array-oriented programming language (similar to S) for manipulating binary data sent between the processes. In general Glish uses a centralized communication model where interprocess communication passes through the Glish interpreter, allowing dynamic modification and rerouting of data values, but Glish also supports point-to-point links between processes when necessary for high performance. reference: "Glish: A User-Level Software Bus for Loosely-Coupled Distributed Systems," Vern Paxson and Chris Saltmarsh, Proceedings of the 1993 Winter USENIX Conference, San Diego, CA, January, 1993. ports: SunOS, Ultrix, HP/UX (rusty) contact: vern@ee.lbl.gov updated: 1993/06/04 language: Gofer (Haskell derivitive) package: Gofer version: 2.28a parts: interpreter, translator(->C), documentation, examples author: Mark Jones location: ftp pub/haskell/gofer from nebula.cs.yale.edu UK: pub/Packages/Gofer from ftp.comlab.ox.ac.uk description: Gofer is based quite closely on the Haskell programming language, version 1.2. It supports lazy evaluation, higher order functions, pattern matching, polymorphism, overloading etc and runs on a wide range of machines. conformance: Gofer does not implement all of Haskell, although it is very close. ports: many, including Sun, PC, Mac, Atari, Amiga status: maintained but not developed (for a while anyway) updated: 1993/03/09 language: Haskell package: Chalmers Haskell (aka Haskell B.) version: ? parts: ? author: ? location: ftp pub/haskell/chalmers/hbc from animal.cs.chalmers.se description: ? requires: LML contact: ? updated: 1992/07/06 language: Haskell package: The Glasgow Haskell Compiler (GHC) version: 0.10 parts: translator(C), tests, profiler author: ? location: ftp pub/haskell/glasgow/* from nebula.cs.yale.edu UK: ftp pub/haskell/glasgow/* from ftp.dcs.glasgow.ac.uk Sweden: ftp pub/haskell/glasgow/* from animal.cs.chalmers.se description: + almost all of Haskell is implemented + An extensible I/O system is provided, based on a "monad" + significant language extensions are implemented: Fully fledged unboxed data types, Ability to write arbitrary in-line C-language code, Incrementally-updatable arrays, Mutable reference types. + generational garbage collector + Good error messages + programs compiled with GHC "usually" beat Chalmers-HBC-compiled ones. + compiler is written in a modular and well-documented way. + Highly configurable runtime system. - No interactive system. - Compiler is greedy on resources. conformance: Almost all of Haskell is implemented. bugs: requires: GNU C 2.1+, perl, Chalmers HBC 0.998.x (source build only) ports: Sun4 portability: should be high contact: updated: 1992/12/14 language: Hermes package: IBM Watson prototype Hermes system version: 0.8alpha patchlevel 01 parts: bytecode compiler, bytecode translator(C), runtime author: Andy Lowry location: ftp pub/hermes/README from software.watson.ibm.com description: Hermes is a very-high-level integrated language and system for implementation of large systems and distributed applications, as well as for general-purpose programming. It is an imperative, strongly typed, process-oriented language. Hermes hides distribution and heterogeneity from the programmer. The programmer sees a single abstract machine containing processes that communicate using calls or sends. The compiler, not the programmer, deals with the complexity of data structure layout, local and remote communication, and interaction with the operating system. As a result, Hermes programs are portable and easy to write. Because the programming paradigm is simple and high level, there are many opportunities for optimization which are not present in languages which give the programmer more direct control over the machine. reference: Strom, Bacon, Goldberg, Lowry, Yellin, Yemini. Hermes: A Language for Distributed Computing. Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, NJ. 1991. ISBN: O-13-389537-8. ports: RS6000 Sun-4 NeXT IBM-RT/bsd4.3 (Sun-3 and Convex soon) discussion: comp.lang.hermes updated: 1992/03/22 language: Hope package: ? version: ? parts: ? author: ? location: ftp ? from brolga.cc.uq.oz.au description: Functional language with polymorphic types and lazy lists. First language to use call-by-pattern. ports: Unix, Mac, PC updated: 1992/11/27 language: ici package: ici version: ? parts: interpreter, documentation, examples author: Tim Long location: ftp pub/ici.cpio.Z from extro.ucc.su.oz.au description: ICI has dynamic arrays, structures and typing with the flow control constructs, operators and syntax of C. There are standard functions to provided the sort of support provided by the standard I/O and the C libraries, as well as addi- tional types and functions to support common needs such as simple data bases and character based screen handling. features: + direct access to many system calls + structures, safe pointers, floating point + simple, non-indexed built in database + terminal-based windowing library ports: Sun4, 80x86 Xenix, NextStep, MSDOS portability: high status: actively developed. discussion: send "help" to listserv@research.canon.oz.au contact: Andy Newman updated: 1992/11/10 language: Icon package: icon version: 8.7 (8.5, 8.0 depending on platform) parts: interpreter, compiler (some platforms), library (v8.8) author: Ralph Griswold location: ftp icon/* from cs.arizona.edu description: Icon is a high-level, general purpose programming language that contains many features for processing nonnumeric data, particularly for textual material consisting of string of characters. - no packages, one name-space - no exceptions + object oiented features + records, sets, lists, strings, tables + unlimited line length - unix interface is primitive + co-expressions reference: "The Icon Programmming Language", Ralph E. Griswold and Madge T. Griswold, Prentice Hall, seond edition, 1990. "The Implementation of the Icon Programmming Language", Ralph E. Griswold and Madge T. Griswold, Princeton University Press 1986 ports: Amiga, Atari, CMS, Macintosh, Macintosh/MPW, MSDOS, MVS, OS/2, Unix (most variants), VMS, Acorn discussion: comp.lang.icon contact: icon-project@cs.arizona.edu updated: 1992/08/21 language: Candle, IDL (Interface Description Language) package: Scorpion System version: 5.0 parts: software development environment for developing software development environments, documentation author: University of Arizona location: ftp scorpion/* from cs.arizona.edu description: 20 tools that can be used to construct specialized programming environments. The Scorpion Project was started by Prof. Richard Snodgrass as an outgrowth of the SoftLab Project (which pro- duced the IDL Toolkit) that he started when he was at the University of North Carolina. The Scorpion Project is directed by him at the University of Arizona and by Karen Shannon at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. reference: "The Interface Description Language: Definition and Use," by Richard Snodgrass, Computer Science Press, 1989, ISBN 0-7167-8198-0 ports: Sun-3, Sun-4, Vax, Decstation, NeXT, Sequent, HP9000 discussion: info-scorpion-request@cs.arizona.edu contact: scorpion-project@cs.arizona.edu updated: 1991/04/10 language: IDL (Project DOE's Interface Definition Language) package: SunSoft OMG IDL CFE version: 1.2 parts: compiler front end, documentation author: SunSoft Inc. location: ftp pub/OMG_IDL_CFE_1.2/* from omg.org description: OMG's (Object Management Group) CORBA 1.1 (Common Object Request Broker Architecture) specification provides the standard interface definition between OMG-compliant objects. IDL (Interface Definition Language) is the base mechanism for object interaction. The SunSoft OMG IDL CFE (Compiler Front End) provides a complete framework for building CORBA 1.1-compliant preprocessors for OMG IDL. To use SunSoft OMG IDL CFE, you must write a back-end; full instructions are included. A complete compiler of IDL would translate IDL into client side and server side routines for remote communication in the same manner as the currrent Sun RPCL compiler. The additional degree of freedom that the IDL compiler front end provides is that it allows integration of new back ends which can translate IDL to various programming languages. Several companies including Sunsoft are building back ends to the CFE which translate IDL into target languages, e.g. Pascal or C++, in the context of planned CORBA-compliant products. requires: C++ 2.1 conformant C++ compiler contact: idl-cfe@sun.com updated: 1993/05/04 language: IFP (Illinois Functional Programming) package: ifp version: 0.5 parts: interpreter author: Arch D. Robison location: comp.sources.unix archive volume 10 description: A variant of Backus' "Functional Programming" language with a syntax reminiscent of Modula-2. The interpreter is written in portable C. reference: [1] Arch D. Robison, "Illinois Functional Programming: A Tutorial," BYTE, (February 1987), pp. 115--125. [2] Arch D. Robison, "The Illinois Functional Programming Interpreter," Proceedings of 1987 SIGPLAN Conference on Interpreters and Interpretive Techniques, (June 1987), pp. 64-73 ports: UNIX, MS-DOS, CTSS (Cray) updated: ? language: INTERCAL package: C-INTERCAL version: 0.9 parts: compiler, library, documentation author: Eric S. Raymond location: ftp pub/intercal/intercal0.9.* from sequoia.lle.rochester.edu description: INTERCAL is possibly the most elaborate and long-lived joke in the history of programming languages. It was first designed by Don Woods and Jim Lyons in 1972 as a deliberate attempt to produce a language as unlike any existing one as possible. The manual, describing features of horrifying uniqueness, became an underground classic. ESR wrote C-INTERCAL in 1990 as a break from editing _The_New_Hacker's_Dictionary_, adding to it the first implementation of COME FROM under its own name. The compiler has since been maintained and extended by an international community of technomasochists. The distribution includes extensive documentation and a program library. C-INTERCAL is actually an INTERCAL-to-C source translator which then calls the local C compiler to generate a binary. The code is thus quite portable. contact: Steve Swales updated: 1993/05/20 language: J package: J-mode version: ? parts: emacs macros author: ? location: ftp pub/j/gmacs/j-interaction-mode.el from think.com description: add on to J updated: 1991/03/04 language: J package: J from ISI version: 6 parts: interpreter, tutorial author: Kenneth E. Iverson and Roger Hui location: ftp languages/apl/j/* from watserv1.waterloo.edu description: J was designed and developed by Ken Iverson and Roger Hui. It is similar to the language APL, departing from APL in using using the ASCII alphabet exclusively, but employing a spelling scheme that retains the advantages of the special alphabet required by APL. It has added features and control structures that extend its power beyond standard APL. Although it can be used as a conventional procedural programming language, it can also be used as a pure functional programming language. ports: Dec, NeXT, SGI, Sun-3, Sun-4, VAX, RS/6000, MIPS, Mac, Acorn IBM-PC, Atari, 3b1, Amiga updated: 1992/10/31 language: Janus package: qdjanus version: 1.3 parts: translator(prolog) author: Saumya Debray location: ftp janus/qdjanus/* from cs.arizona.edu description: janus is a janus-to-prolog compiler meant to be used with Sicstus Prolog conformance: mostly compliant with "Programming in Janus" by Saraswat, Kahn, and Levy. updated: 1992/05/18 language: Janus package: jc version: 1.50 alpha parts: translator(C) author: David Gudeman location: ftp janus/jc/* from cs.arizona.edu description: jc is a janus-to-C compiler (considerably faster than qdjanus). jc is a _sequential_ implementation of a _concurrent_ language. bugs: jc-bugs@cs.arizona.edu ports: sun-4, sun-3, Sequent Symmetry status: jc is an experimental system, undergoing rapid development. It is in alpha release currently. discussion: janusinterest-request@parc.xerox.com updated: 1992/06/09 language: PCN package: PCN version: 2.0 parts: compiler?, runtime, linker, libraries, tools, debugger, profiler, tracer author: Ian Foster , Steve Tuecke , and others location: ftp pub/pcn/pcn_v2.0.tar.Z from info.mcs.anl.gov description: PCN is a parallel programming system designed to improve the productivity of scientists and engineers using parallel computers. It provides a simple language for specifying concurrent algorithms, interfaces to Fortran and C, a portable toolkit that allows applications to be developed on a workstation or small parallel computer and run unchanged on supercomputers, and integrated debugging and performance analysis tools. PCN was developed at Argonne National Laboratory and the California Institute of Technology. It has been used to develop a wide variety of applications, in areas such as climate modeling, fluid dynamics, computational biology, chemistry, and circuit simulation. ports: (workstation nets): Sun4, NeXT, RS/6000, SGI (multicomputers): iPSC/860, Touchstone DELTA (shared memory multiprocessors): Symmetry/Dynix contact: updated: 1993/02/12 language: RLaB language (math manipulation - MATLAB-like) package: RLaB version: 0.75 parts: interpreter, libraries, documentation author: Ian Searle location: ftp pub/alpha/RLaB from evans.ee.adfa.oz.au description: RLaB is a "MATLAB-like" matrix-oriented programming language/toolbox. RLaB focuses on creating a good experimental environment (or laboratory) in which to do matrix math Currently RLaB has numeric scalars and matrices (real and complex), and string scalars, and matrices. RLaB also contains a list variable type, which is a heterogeneous associative array. bugs: Ian Searle restriction: GNU General Public License requires: GNUPLOT, lib[IF]77.a (from f2c) ports: many unix, OS/2, Amiga updated: 1993/04/21 ? language: FUDGIT language (math manipulation) package: FUDGIT version: 2.27 parts: interpreter author: Thomas Koenig ?? location: ftp /pub/linux/sources/usr.bin/fudgit-* from tsx-11.mit.edu ?? description: FUDGIT is a double-precision multi-purpose fitting program. It can manipulate complete columns of numbers in the form of vector arithmetic. FUDGIT is also an expression language interpreter understanding most of C grammar except pointers. Morever, FUDGIT is a front end for any plotting program supporting commands from stdin. It is a nice mathematical complement to GNUPLOT, for example. requires: GNUPLOT ports: AIX, HPUX, Linux, IRIX, NeXT, SunOS, Ultrix updated: 1993/02/22 language: Unix BC (arbitrary-precision arithmetic language) package: GNU BC version: 1.02 parts: parser (yacc), interpreter, BC math library author: ? location: ftp bc-1.02.tar.Z from a GNU archive site description: BC is an arbitrary precision numeric processing language with a C-like syntax that traditionally provided a front-end to DC. This version, however, is self-contained and internally executes its own compiled code (unrelated to DC code). conformance: Superset of POSIX BC, with a POSIX-only mode. updated: ? language: Unix DC (arbitrary-precision arithmetic language) package: GNU DC version: 0.2 parts: interpreter author: ? location: ftp dc-0.2.tar.Z from a GNU archive site description: DC is the language for an arbitrary precision postfix calculator. This version is a subset of DC that handles all the Unix DC operations, except the (undocumented) array operations. status: Attempting integration with GNU BC [will break GNU BC -Mark] updated: 1993/05/21 language: Calc? (symbolic math calculator) package: Calc version: 2.02 parts: interpreter, emacs mode author: ? location: ftp calc-2.02.tar.z from a GNU archive site description: Calc is an extensible, advanced desk calculator and mathematical tool written in Emacs Lisp that runs as part of GNU Emacs. It is accompanied by the "Calc Manual", which serves as both a tutorial and a reference. If you wish, you can use Calc as only a simple four-function calculator, but it also provides additional features including choice of algebraic or RPN (stack-based) entry, logarithms, trigonometric and financial functions, arbitrary precision, complex numbers, vectors, matrices, dates, times, infinities, sets, algebraic simplification, differentiation, and integration. bugs: ? updated: ? language: ? Calc package: ? Arbitrary precision calculator version: 1.26.4 parts: ? author: David I. Bell (dbell@canb.auug.org.au) location: ftp.uu.net:pub/calc/ description: Arbitrary precision C-like calculator [similarities to BC?] ports: Linux updated: 1993/06/15 language: lex package: flex version: 2.3.8 parts: scanner generator author: Vern Paxson location: ftp flex-2.3.8.tar.Z from a GNU archive site or ftp.ee.lbl.gov description: ? updated: ? language: LIFE (Logic, Inheritance, Functions, and Equations) package: Wild_LIFE version: first-release parts: interpreter, manual, tests, libraries, examples author: Paradise Project, DEC Paris Research Laboratory. location: ftp pub/plan/Life.tar.Z from gatekeeper.dec.com. description: LIFE is an experimental programming language with a powerful facility for structured type inheritance. It reconciles styles from functional programming, logic programming, and object-oriented programming. LIFE implements a constraint logic programming language with equality (unification) and entailment (matching) constraints over order-sorted feature terms. The Wild_LIFE interpreter has a comfortable user interface with incremental query extension ability. It contains an extensive set of built-in operations as well as an X Windows interface. conformance: semantic superset of LOGIN and LeFun. Syntax is similar to prolog. bugs: life-bugs@prl.dec.com ports: MIPS-Ultrix portability: good in theory discussion: life-request@prl.dec.com contact: Peter Van Roy updated: 1992/12/14 language: Common Lisp package: CMU Common Lisp version: 16f parts: incremental compiler, profiler, runtime, documentation, editor, debugger author: ? location: ftp /afs/cs.cmu.edu/project/clisp/release/16f-source.tar.Z from ftp.cs.cmu.edu. Precompiled versions also available description: includes *macs-like editor (hemlock), pcl, and clx. conformance: mostly X3J13 compatible. ports: Sparc/Mach Sparc/SunOS Mips/Mach IBMRT/Mach contact: slisp@cs.cmu.edu updated: 1992/12/17 language: Common Lisp package: PCL (Portable Common Loops) version: 8/28/92 PCL parts: library author: ? Richard Harris ? location: ftp pcl/* from parcftp.xerox.com description: A portable CLOS implementation. CLOS is the object oriented programming standard for Common Lisp. Based on Symbolics FLAVORS and Xerox LOOPS, among others. Loops stands for Lisp Object Oriented Programming System. ports: Lucid CL 4.0.1, CMUCL 16e, ? status: ? updated: 1992/09/02 language: Common Lisp package: WCL version: 2.14 parts: ?, shared library runtime, source debugger author: Wade Hennessey location: ftp pub/wcl/* from sunrise.stanford.edu description: A common lisp implementation as a shared library. WCL Is not a 100% complete Common Lisp, but it does have the full development environment including dynamic file loading and debugging. A modified version of GDB provides mixed-language debugging. A paper describing WCL was published in the proceedings of the 1992 Lisp and Functional Programming Conference. requires: GNU C 2.1 (not 2.2.2) ports: Sparc/SunOS discussion: contact: updated: 1992/10/28 language: Common Lisp package: KCL (Kyoto Common Lisp) version: ? parts: translator(C), interpreter author: T. Yuasa , M. Hagiya location: ? ftp pub/kcl*.tar.Z from rascal.ics.utexas.edu ? description: KCL, Kyoto Common Lisp, is an implementation of Lisp, It is written in the language C to run under Un*x-like operating systems. KCL is very C-oriented; for example, the compilation of Lisp functions in KCL involves a subsidiary C compilation. conformance: conforms to the book ``Common Lisp: The Language,'' G. Steele, et al., Digital Press, 1984. bugs: kcl@cli.com restriction: must sign license agreement discussion: kcl-request@cli.com updated: 1987/06 language: Common Lisp package: AKCL (Austin Kyoto Common Lisp) version: 1-615 parts: improvements author: Bill Schelter , location: ftp pub/akcl-*.tar.Z from rascal.ics.utexas.edu description: AKCL is a collection of ports, bug fixes, and performance improvements to KCL. ports: Decstation3100, HP9000/300, i386/sysV, IBM-PS2/aix, IBM-RT/aix SGI Sun-3/Sunos[34].* Sun-4 Sequent-Symmetry IBM370/aix, VAX/bsd VAX/ultrix NeXT updated: 1992/04/29 language: Common Lisp package: CLX version: 5.01 parts: library author: ? location: ftp contrib/CLX.R5.01.tar.Z from export.lcs.mit.edu description: Common Lisp binding for X bugs: bug-clx@expo.lcs.mit.edu ports: ?, CMU Common Lisp contact: ? updated: 1992/08/26 language: Common Lisp package: CLISP version: ? parts: bytecode compiler, translator(->C), runtime, library, editor author: Bruno Haible , Michael Stoll location: ftp pub/lisp/clisp from ma2s2.mathematik.uni-karlsruhe.de description: CLISP is a Common Lisp (CLtL1) implementation by Bruno Haible of Karlsruhe University and Michael Stoll of Munich University, both in Germany. It needs only 1.5 MB of RAM. German and English versions are available, French coming soon. Packages running in CLISP include PCL and, on Unix machines, CLX. conformance: CLISP is mostly CLtL1 compliant. It implements 99% of the standard restriction: GNU General Public License ports: Atari, Amiga, MS-DOS, OS/2, Linux, Sun4, Sun386i, HP90000/800 and others discussion: send "subscribe clisp-list" to listserv@ma2s2.mathematik.uni-karlsruhe.de updated: 1993/03/10 language: Common Lisp package: Cartier's Contribs version: 1.2 parts: libraries, documentation author: Guillaume Cartier location: ftp pub/mcl2/contrib/Cartiers* from cambridge.apple.com description: libraries for MCL requires: Macintosh Common Lisp updated: 1992/11/30 language: Common Lisp package: QT-OBJECTS version: ? parts: library author: Michael Travers and others location: ? description: interface between MCL and QuickTime requires: Macintosh Common Lisp updated: 1992/12/20 language: Common Lisp package: Memoization ? version: ? parts: library author: Marty Hall location: ftp pub/Memoization from archive.cs.umbc.edu description: Automatic memoization is a technique by which an existing function can be transformed into one that "remembers" previous arguments and their associated results updated: 1992/11/30 language: Common Lisp package: GINA (Generic Interactive Application) version: 2.2 parts: language binding, class library, interface builder author: ? location: ftp /gmd/gina from ftp.gmd.de N.America: ftp contrib/? from export.lcs.mit.edu description: GINA is an application framework based on Common Lisp and OSF/Motif to simplify the construction of graphical interactive applications. It consists of: + CLM, a language binding for OSF/Motif in Common Lisp. + the GINA application framework, a class library in CLOS + the GINA interface builder, an interactive tool implemented with GINA to design Motif windows. requires: OSF/Motif 1.1 or better. Common Lisp with CLX, CLOS, PCL and processes. ports: Franz Allegro, Lucid, CMU CL and Symbolics Genera discussion: gina-users-request@gmdzi.gmd.de updated: ? language: Lisp package: RefLisp version: 2.67 parts: interpreter, documentation, examples, profiler author: Bill Birch location: ftp implementations/reflisp/* from the directory /afs/cs.cmu.edu/user/mkant/Public/Lisp on ftp.cs.cmu.edu description: The interpreter is a shallow-binding (i.e., everything has dynamic scope), reference counting design making it suitable for experimenting with real-time and graphic user interface programming. Common Lisp compatibility macros are provided, and most of the examples in "Lisp" by Winston & Horn have been run on RefLisp. RefLisp makes no distinction between symbol-values and function-values, so a symbol can be either but not both. There are Lisp modules for lexical scope and for running indefinite extent Scheme programs. ports: MSDOS (CGA/EGA/VGA), Unix (AIX) status: "Last Update for a While," author is emigrating to Australia updated: 1993/02/09 language: Lisp package: xlisp version: 2.1 parts: interpreter author: David Micheal Betz location: ftp pub/xlisp* from wasp.eng.ufl.edu US Mail: contact Tom Almy Windows: ftp util/wxlslib.zip from ftp.cica.indiana.edu Version2.0: ftp pub/xlisp/* from cs.orst.edu Macintosh: ftp pub/bskendig/? from netcom.com (source comming) description: XLISP is an experimental programming language combining some of the features of Common Lisp with an object-oriented extension capability. It was implemented to allow experimentation with object-oriented programming on small computers. conformance: subset of Common Lisp with additions of Class and Object restriction: ? no commercial use ? ports: unix, amiga, atari, mac, MSDOS portability: very high: just needs a C compiler discussion: comp.lang.lisp.x updated: 1992/05/26 (unix), 1987/12/16 (other platforms) language: Lisp package: "LISP, Objects, and Symbolic Programming" version: ? parts: book with compiler included author: Robert R. Kessler and Amy R. Petajan, published by Scott, Foresman and Company, Glenview, IL location: bookstore... description: ? (A short synopsis might help if anyone has one) updated: 1988 language: Lisp package: franz lisp version: ? parts: ? author: ? location: [does anyone know where you get franz lisp??? --muir] description: ? discussion: franz-friends-request@berkeley.edu updated: ? language: Lisp (WOOL - Window Object Oriented Language) package: GWM (Generic Window Manager) version: ? parts: interpreter, examples author: ? location: ftp contrib/gwm/* from export.lcs.mit.edu France: ftp pub/gwm/* from avahi.inria.fr description: Gwm is an extensible window manager for X11. It is based on a WOOL kernel, and interpreted dialect of lisp with specific winow management primitives. discussion: gwm-talk@??? contact: ? updated: ? language: Lisp (elisp - Emacs Lisp) package: GNU Emacs version: 19.15 parts: editor, interpreter, documentation, source debugger author: Richard Stallman and others location: emacs-19.15.tar.gz from any GNU archive description: An editor that is almost an operating system. Quite programmable. And it even fits in your tackle box. bugs: gnu.emacs.bug ports: Unix, VMS, ? discussion: alt.religion.emacs, gnu.emacs.sources help: gnu.emacs.help announcements: gnu.emacs.announce updated: 1993/06/20 language: Logo package: logo version: 4 parts: interpreter author: ? location: comp.sources.unix archive volume 10 description: ? updated: ? language: Logo package: Berkeley Logo version: 2.9 - alpha parts: interpreter author: Brian Harvey location: ftp pub/*logo* from anarres.cs.berkeley.edu description: + Logo programs are compatible among Unix, PC, and Mac. + "richer" than MswLogo? - pretty slow. - doesn't do anything fancy about graphics. (One turtle.) ports: unix, pc, mac updated: 1993/03/01 language: Logo package: MswLogo version: 3.3 parts: interpreter author: George Mills location: ftp pub/comp.lang.logo/programs/mswlogo from cher.media.mit.edu Source may require emailing George Mills. description: A windows front-end for Berkeley Logo bugs: George Mills ports: MS Windows 3.x status: activly developed updated: 1993/04/20 language: Lolli (logic programming) package: Lolli version: ? parts: ? author: ? Josh Hodas ? location: ftp pub/Lolli/Lolli-07.tar.Z. from ftp.cis.upenn.edu description: Lolli is an interpreter for logic programming based on linear logic principles. Lolli can be viewed as a refinement of the the Hereditary Harrop formulas of Lambda-Prolog. All the operators (though not the higher order unification) of Lambda-Prolog are supported, but with the addition of linear variations. Thus a Lolli program distinguishes between clauses which can be used as many, or as few, times as desired, and those that must be used exactly once. requires: ML updated: 1992/11/08 language: LOOPN package: LOOPN version: ? parts: compiler?, simulator author: ? location: ftp departments/computer_sci*/loopn.tar.Z from ftp.utas.edu.au description: I wish to announce the availability of a compiler, simulator and associated source control for an object-oriented petri net language called LOOPN. In LOOPN, a petri net is an extension of coloured timed petri nets. The extension means firstly that token types are classes. In other words, they consist of both data fields and functions, they can be declared by inheriting from other token types, and they can be used polymorphically. The object-oriented extensions also mean that module or subnet types are classes. LOOPN has been developed over a period of about 5 years at the University of Tasmania, where it has been used in teaching computer simulation and the modelling of network protocols. A petri net is a directed, bipartite graph; nodes are either places (represented by circles) or transitions (represented by rectangles). A net is marked by placing tokens on places. When all the places pointing to a transition (the input places) have a token, the net may be fired by removing a token from each input place and adding a token to each place pointed to by the transition (the output places). Petri nets are used to model concurrent systems, particularly in the network protocol area. contact: Charles Lakos updated: 1992/12/20 language: Lout package: Lout version: 2 parts: translator(Lout->Postscript), documentation author: Jeffrey H. Kingston location: ftp jeff/lout.2.03.tar.Z from ftp.cs.su.oz.au description: Lout is a batch text formatting system. Lout offers an unprecedented range of advanced features, including equation formatting, tables, diagrams, rotation and scaling, sorted indexes, bibliographic databases, running headers and odd-even pages, automatic cross referencing, and much more, all ready to go. Furthermore, Lout is easily extended with definitions which are very much easier to write than troff of TeX macros because Lout is a high-level language, the outcome of an eight-year research project that went back to the beginning. ports: unix updated: 1993/05/12 language: Maisie package: Maisie-parallel-language version: 2.1 parts: source code, postscript documentation, examples author: Wen-Toh Liao (wentoh@may.CS.UCLA.EDU) location: ftp from cs.ucla.edu : pub/maisie.2.1.1.3.tar.Z. description: C-based parallel programming language that uses asynchronous typed-message passing and supports light-weight processes. The language is C with enhancements to allow processes to be defined, created, and destroyed, to send and receive messages, and manipulate the system clock. ports: PVM/3.1, Cosmic Environment, and SUN Sockets. updated: 1993/06/14 language: MeldC (MELD, C) package: MeldC version: 2.0 parts: microkernel, compiler, debugger, manual, examples author: MELD Project, Programming Systems Laboratory at Columbia University location: obtain license from description: MeldC 2.0: A Reflective Object-Oriented Coordination Programming Language MELDC is a C-based, concurrent, object-oriented language built on a reflective architecture. The core of the architecture is a micro-kernel (the MELDC kernel), which encapsulates a minimum set of entities that cannot be modeled as objects. All components outside of the kernel are implemented as objects in MELDC itself and are modularized in the MELDC libraries. MELDC is reflective in three dimensions: structural, computational and architectural. The structural reflection indicates that classes and meta-classes are objects, which are written in MELDC. The computational reflection means that object behaviors can be computed and extended at runtime. The architectural reflection indicates that new features/properties (e.g., persistency and remoteness) can be constructed in MELDC. restriction: must sign license, cannot use for commercial purposes ports: Sun4/SunOS4.1 Mips/Ultrix4.2 contact: updated: 1992/12/15 language: micro-C++ package: uC++ version: 3.7 parts: compiler, reference author: ? Peter A. Ruhr (pabuhr@plg.uwaterloo.ca) location: plg.uwaterloo.ca:pub/uSystem/u++-3.7.tar.Z description: An extended C++ with light-weight concurrency for UNIX-like systems. reference: For uC++ v. 3.2.5: Software--Practice and Experience, 22(2):137-172, February 1992. requires: dmake, version 3.0 or later (can be found at ftp location plg.uwaterloo.ca:pub/dmake/dmake38.tar.Z) GNU C++ 2.3.3 (or later?) ports: Many 32-bit hosts with UNIX clones. portability: Needs "setitimer" and "sigcontext" from UNIX-like systems. updated: 1993/06/10 language: ML package: LML version: ? parts: compiler(?), interactive environment author: ? location: ftp pup/haskell/chalmers/* from animal.cs.chalmers.se description: lazy, completely functional variant of ML. ports: ? contact: ? updated: 1992/07/06 language: Standard ML package: SML/NJ (Standard ML of New Jersey) version: 0.93 parts: compiler, libraries, extensions, interfaces, documentation, build facility author: D. B. MacQueen , Lal George , AJ. H. Reppy , A. W. Appel location: ftp dist/ml/* from research.att.com description: Standard ML is a modern, polymorphically typed, (impure) functional language with a module system that supports flexible yet secure large-scale programming. Standard ML of New Jersey is an optimizing native-code compiler for Standard ML that is written in Standard ML. It runs on a wide range of architectures. The distribution also contains: + an extensive library - The Standard ML of New Jersey Library, including detailed documentation. + CML - Concurrent ML + eXene - an elegant interface to X11 (based on CML) + SourceGroup - a separate compilation and "make" facility ports: M68K, SPARC, MIPS, HPPA, RS/6000, I386/486 updated: 1993/02/18 language: Concurrent ML package: Concurrent ML version: 0.9.8 parts: extension author: ? location: ftp pub/CML* from ftp.cs.cornell.edu or get SML/NJ description: Concurrent ML is a concurrent extension of SML/NJ, supporting dynamic thread creation, synchronous message passing on synchronous channels, and first-class synchronous operations. First-class synchronous operations allow users to tailor their synchronization abstractions for their application. CML also supports both stream I/O and low-level I/O in an integrated fashion. bugs: sml-bugs@research.att.com requires: SML/NJ 0.75 (or later) updated: 1993/02/18 language: Standard ML package: sml2c version: ? parts: translator(C), documentation, tests author: School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University location: ftp /usr/nemo/sml2c/sml2c.tar.Z from dravido.soar.cs.cmu.edu Linux: ftp pub/linux/smlnj-0.82-linux.tar.Z from ftp.dcs.glasgow.ac.uk description: sml2c is a Standard ML to C compiler. sml2c is a batch compiler and compiles only module-level declarations, i.e. signatures, structures and functors. It provides the same pervasive environment for the compilation of these programs as SML/NJ. As a result, module-level programs that run on SML/NJ can be compiled by sml2c without any changes. Based on SML/NJ version 0.67 and shares front end and most of its runtime system, but does not support SML/NJ style debugging and profiling. conformance: superset + first-class continuations, + asynchronous signal handling + separate compilation + freeze and restart programs ports: IBM-RT Decstation3100 Omron-Luna-88k Sun-3 Sun-4 386(Mach) portability: easy, easier than SML/NJ contact: david.tarditi@cs.cmu.edu anurag.acharya@cs.cmu.edu peter.lee@cs.cmu.edu updated: 1991/06/27 language: Standard ML package: The ML Kit version: 1 parts: interprter, documentation author: Nick Rothwell, David N. Turner, Mads Tofte , and Lars Birkedal at Edinburgh and Copenhagen Universities. location: ftp diku/users/birkedal/* from ftp.diku.dk UK: ftp export/ml/mlkit/* from lfcs.ed.ac.uk description: The ML Kit is a straight translation of the Definition of Standard ML into a collection of Standard ML modules. For example, every inference rule in the Definition is translated into a small piece of Standard ML code which implements it. The translation has been done with as little originality as possible - even variable conventions from the Definition are carried straight over to the Kit. The Kit is intended as a tool box for those people in the programming language community who may want a self-contained parser or type checker for full Standard ML but do not want to understand the clever bits of a high-performance compiler. We have tried to write simple code and modular interfaces. updated: 1993/03/12 language: m4 package: GNU m4 version: 1.0 parts: interperter, ? author: ? location: ftp m4-1.0.tar.Z from a GNU archive site description: A macro preprocessor language, somewhat flexible. conformance: ? ports: ? updated: 1991/10/25 language: Modula-2, Pascal package: m2 version: ? 7/2/92 ? parts: ? compiler ? author: Michael L. Powell. See description below. location: ftp pub/DEC/Modula-2/m2.tar.Z from gatekeeper.dec.com description: A modula-2 compiler for VAX and MIPS. A Pascal compiler for VAX is also included. The Pascal compiler accepts a language that is almost identical to Berkeley Pascal. It was originally designed and built by Michael L. Powell, in 1984. Joel McCormack made it faster, fixed lots of bugs, and swiped/wrote a User's Manual. Len Lattanzi ported it to the MIPS. conformance: extensions: + foreign function and data interface + dynamic array variables + subarray parameters + multi-dimensional open array parameters + inline proceedures + longfloat type + type-checked interface to C library I/O routines restriction: must pass changes back to Digital ports: vax (ultrix, bsd), mips (ultrix) contact: modula-2@decwrl.pa.dec.com updated: 1992/07/06 language: Modula-2 package: Ulm's Modula-2 System version: 2.2.1 parts: compiler, library, tools author: Andreas Borchert compiler derived from the ETHZ compiler for the Lilith system location: ftp pub/soft/modula/ulm/sun3/modula-2.2.1.tar.Z from titania.mathematik.uni-ulm.de. Please get the READ_ME too. description: ? conformance: PIM3 restriction: commercial use requires licence; compiler sources available by separate licence agreement (licence fee is not required if it is possible to transfer the sources across the network) requires: gas-1.36 (to be found in the same directory) ports: Sun3, Nixdorf Targon/31, Concurrent 3200 Series contact: Andreas Borchert updated: 1992/03/02 language: Modula-2 package: mtc version: ? parts: translator(C) author: ? location: ftp soft/unixtools/compilerbau/mtc.tar.Z from rusmv1.rus.uni-stuttgart.de description: ? ports: ? updated: 1991/10/25 language: Modula-2, Modula-3 package: M2toM3 ? version: ? parts: translator(Modula-2 -> Modula-3), ? author: ? location: ftp pub/DEC/Modula-3/contrib/M2toM3 from gatekeeper.dec.com description: ? requires: ? updated: ? language: Modula-2 package: PRAM emulator and parallel modula-2 compiler ?? version: ? parts: compiler, emulator author: ? location: ftp pub/pram/* from cs.joensuu.fi description: A software emulator for parallel random access machine (PRAM) and a parallel modula-2 compiler for the emulator. A PRAM consists of P processors, an unbounded shared memory, and a common clock. Each processor is a random access machine (RAM) consisting of R registers, a program counter, and a read-only signature register. Each RAM has an identical program, but the RAMs can branch to different parts of the program. The RAMs execute the program synchronously one instruction in one clock cycle. pm2 programming language is Modula-2/Pascal mixture having extensions for parallel execution in a PRAM. Parallelism is expressed by pardo-loop- structure. Additional features include privat/shared variables, two synchronization strategies, load balancing and parallel dynamic memory allocation. contact: Simo Juvaste updated: 1993/02/17 language: Modula-3 package: SRC Modula-3 version: 2.11 parts: translator(C), runtime, library, documentation author: ? location: ftp pub/DEC/Modula-3/m3-*.tar.Z from gatekeeper.dec.com description: The goal of Modula-3 is to be as simple and safe as it can be while meeting the needs of modern systems programmers. Instead of exploring new features, we studied the features of the Modula family of languages that have proven themselves in practice and tried to simplify them into a harmonious language. We found that most of the successful features were aimed at one of two main goals: greater robustness, and a simpler, more systematic type system. Modula-3 retains one of Modula-2's most successful features, the provision for explicit interfaces between modules. It adds objects and classes, exception handling, garbage collection, lightweight processes (or threads), and the isolation of unsafe features. conformance: implements the language defined in SPwM3. ports: i386/AIX 68020/DomainOS Acorn/RISCiX MIPS/Ultrix 68020/HP-UX RS6000/AIX IBMRT/4.3 68000/NextStep i860/SVR4 SPARC/SunOS 68020/SunOS sun386/SunOS Multimax/4.3 VAX/Ultrix discussion: comp.lang.modula3 contact: Bill Kalsow updated: 1992/02/09 language: Modula-3 package: m3pc version: ? parts: ? author: ? location: ftp pub/DEC/Modula-3/contrib/m3pc* from gatekeeper.dec.com description: an implementation of Modula-3 for PCs. [Is this SRC Modula-3 ported? --muir] updated: ? language: natural languages (Pleuk) package: Pleuk grammar development system version: ? 1 parts: shell, examples, documentation author: Jo Calder (jcalder@cs.sfu.ca), Kevin Humphreys (kwh@cogsci.ed.ac.uk), Chris Brew (chrisbr@cogsci.ed.ac.uk), Mike Reape (mreape@cs.tcd.ie) location: ftp from hostname ai.uga.edu: /ai.natural.language/ description: A shell for grammar development, handles various grammatical formalisms. requires: SICStus Prolog version 2.1#6 or later, and other programs readily available from the public domain. contact: pleuk@cogsci.ed.ac.uk. updated: 1993/06/18 language: natural languages package: proof version: ? parts: parser, documentation author: Craig R. Latta location: ftp src/local/proof/* from scam.berkeley.edu description: a left-associative natural language grammar scanner bugs: proof@xcf.berkeley.edu ports: Decstation3100 Sun-4 discussion: proof-request@xcf.berkeley.edu ("Subject: add me") updated: 1991/09/23 language: NewsClip ? package: NewsClip version: 1.01 parts: translator(NewsClip->C), examples, documentation author: Looking Glass Software Limited but distributed by ClariNet Communications Corp. location: ? description: NewsClip is a very high level language designed for writing netnews filters. It translates into C. It includes support for various newsreaders. restriction: Cannot sell the output of the filters. Donation is hinted at. status: supported for ClariNet customers only contact: newsclip@clarinet.com updated: 1992/10/25 language: Oaklisp package: oaklisp version: 1.2 parts: interface, bytecode compiler, runtime system, documentation author: Barak Pearlmutter, Kevin Lang location: ftp /afs/cs.cmu.edu/user/bap/oak/ftpable/* from f.gp.cs.cmu.edu description: Oaklisp is a Scheme where everything is an object. It provides multiple inheritence, a strong error system, setters and locators for operations, and a facility for dynamic binding. status: actively developed? contact: Pearlmutter-Barak@CS.Yale.Edu ? updated: 1992/05 ? language: Oberon2 package: Oberon-2 LEX/YACC definition version: 1.4 parts: parser(yacc), scanner(lex) author: Stephen J Bevan location: anonymous@ftp.psg.com:pub/oberon/tools/o2lexyac.tar.Z Or: mail bevan@cs.man.ac.uk with Subject "b-server-request~ and body "send oberon/oberon_2_p_v1.4.shar" description: ? A LEX and YACC grammar for Oberon 2 [more details?] status: un-officially supported updated: 1992/07/06 language: Oberon package: Ceres workstation Oberon System version: ? parts: compiler author: ? location: ftp Oberon/? from neptune.ethz.ch description: file format is Oberon, binary header status: The sources to the various _full_ implementations are indeed not available but the source to most of the complete Ceres workstation Oberon System, including NS32032 code generator but less low level system specific is available. This includes the complete Oberon compiler written in Oberon. updated: ? language: OPS5 package: PD OPS5 version: ? parts: interpreter author: Written by Charles L. Forgy and ported to Common Lisp by George Wood and Jim Kowalski. location: ftp /afs/cs.cmu.edu/user/mkant/Public/Lisp/ops5* from ftp.cs.cmu.edu description: Public domain implementation of an OPS5 interpreter. OPS5 is a programming language for production systems. ?????? requires: Common Lisp contact: ? Mark Kantrowitz ? updated: 1992/10/17 language: Parallaxis package: parallaxis version: 2.0 parts: ?, simulator, x-based profiler author: ? location: ftp pub/parallaxis from ftp.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de description: Parallaxis is a procedural programming language based on Modula-2, but extended for data parallel (SIMD) programming. The main approach for machine independent parallel programming is to include a description of the virtual parallel machine with each parallel algorithm. ports: MP-1, CM-2, Sun-3, Sun-4, DECstation, HP 700, RS/6000 contact: ? Thomas Braunl ? updated: 1992/10/23 language: Parlog package: SPM System (Sequential Parlog Machine) version: ? parts: ?, documenation author: ? location: ? ftp lang/Parlog.tar.Z from nuri.inria.fr description: a logic programming language ? reference: Steve Gregory, "Parallel Logic Programming in PARLOG", Addison-Wesely, UK, 1987 restriction: ? no source code ? ports: Sun-3 ? updated: ?? language: Pascal package: p2c version: 1.20 parts: translator(Pascal->C) author: Dave Gillespie location: ftp ? from csvax.cs.caltech.edu description: ? conformance: supports ANSI/ISO standard Pascal as well as substantial subsets of HP, Turbo, VAX, and many other Pascal dialects. ports: ? updated: 1990/04/13 language: Pascal package: ? iso_pascal ? version: ? parts: scanner(lex), parser(yacc) author: ? location: comp.sources.unix archive volume 13 description: ? updated: ? language: Pascal, Lisp, APL, Scheme, SASL, CLU, Smalltalk, Prolog package: Tim Budd's C++ implementation of Kamin's interpreters version: ? parts: interpretors, documentation author: Tim Budd location: ? ftp pub/budd/kamin/*.shar from cs.orst.edu ? description: a set of interpretors written as subclasses based on "Programming Languages, An Interpreter-Based Approach", by Samuel Kamin. requires: C++ status: ? contact: Tim Budd updated: 1991/09/12 language: Pascal package: ? frontend ? version: Alpha parts: frontend (lexer, parser, semantic analysis) author: Willem Jan Withagen location: ftp pub/src/pascal/front* from ftp.eb.ele.tue.nl description: a new version of the PASCAL frontend using the Cocktail compiler tools. updated: 1993/02/24 language: Pascal package: ptc version: ? parts: translator(Pacal->C) author: ? location: ftp languages/ptc from uxc.sco.uiuc.edu ? (use archie?) description: ? contact: ? updated: ? language: Turbo Pascal, Turbo C package: tptc version: ? parts: translator(Turbo Pascal->Turbo C) author: ? location: ftp mirrors/msdos/turbopas/tptc17*.zip from wuarchive.wustl.edu description: (It does come with full source and a student recently used it as a start for a language that included stacks and queues as a built-in data type. contact: ? updated: ? language: Perl (Practical Extraction and Report Language) package: perl version: 4.0 patchlevel 36 parts: interpreter, debugger, libraries, tests, documentation author: Larry Wall location: ftp pub/perl.4.0/* from jpl-devvax.jpl.nasa.gov OS/2 port: ftp pub/os2/all/unix/prog*/perl4019.zip from hobbes.nmsu.edu Mac port: ftp software/mac/src/mpw_c/Mac_Perl_405_* from nic.switch.ch Amiga port: ftp perl4.035.V010.* from wuarchive.wustl.edu VMS port: ftp software/vms/perl/* from ftp.pitt.edu Atari port: ftp amiga/Languages/perl* from atari.archive.umich.edu DOS port: ftp pub/msdos/perl/* from ftp.ee.umanitoba.ca DOS port#2: ftp pub/msdos/perl/bperl* from oak.oakland.edu description: perl is an interpreted language optimized for scanning arbitrary text files, extracting information from those text files, and printing reports based on that information. It's also a good language for many system management tasks. reference: "Programming Perl" by Larry Wall and Randal L. Schwartz, O'Reilly & Associates, Inc. Sebastopol, CA. ISBN 0-93715-64-1 features: + very-high semantic density becuase of powerful operators like regular expression substitution + exceptions, provide/require + associative array can be bound to dbm files + no arbitrary limits + direct access to almost all system calls + can access binary data + many powerful common-task idioms + 8-bit clean, including nulls - three variable types: scalar, array, and hash table - unappealing syntax bugs: comp.lang.perl; Larry Wall ports: almost all unix, MSDOS, Mac, Amiga, Atari, OS/2, VMS portability: very high for unix, not so high for others discussion: comp.lang.perl updated: 1993/02/07 language: perl, awk, sed, find package: a2p, s2p, find2perl version: ? parts: translators(perl) author: Larry Wall location: comes with perl description: translators to turn awk, sed, and find into perl. updated: ? language: perl, yacc package: perl-byacc version: 1.8.2 parts: parser-generator(perl) author: Rick Ohnemus location: ftp local/perl-byacc.tar.Z from ftp.sterling.com description: A modified version of byacc that generates perl code. Has '-p' switch so multiple parsers can be used in one program (C or perl). portability: Should work on most (?) UNIX systems. Also works with SAS/C 6.x on AMIGAs. updated: 1993/01/24 language: Perl package: perl profiler. version: ? 1 parts: source code for mkpprof and pprof author: Anthony Iano-Fletcher (arf@maths.nott.ac.uk) location: Source posted on comp.lang.perl in mid-June 1993 description: Profiles Perl scripts (mkpprof). Collates data from Perl scripts (pprof) updated: 1993/06/17 language: Perl package: bigperl version: 4.0pl36 parts: ? author: Darryl Okahata (darrylo@sr.hp.com) location: Simtel20 in PD1: and mirror sites, (e.g. oak.oakland.edu:/pub/msdos/perl/bperl*.zip). description: A port of PERL to PC platforms. requires: 386 C compiler? ports: MS-DOS, Windows updated: ??? language: Postscript package: Ghostscript version: 2.6.1 parts: interpreter, ? author: L. Peter Deutsch location: ftp pub/GNU/ghostscript* from a GNU archive site ftp from ftp.cs.wisc.edu:/pub/X/ghostscript*2.6.1* description: A postscript interpreter with previewers for serval systems and many fonts. updated: 1993/05/29 language: Postscript, Common Lisp package: PLisp version: ? parts: translator(Postscript), programming environment(Postscript) author: John Peterson location: ? description: ? updated: ? language: Prolog package: SB-Prolog version: 3.1 ? parts: ? author: interpreter location: ftp pub/sbprolog from sbcs.sunysb.edu description: ? restriction: GNU General Public License contact: ? warren@sbcs.sunysb.edu ? updated: ? language: Prolog package: XSB version: "a Beta version" parts: interpreter, preprocessor(HiLog), ? author: XSB research group / SUNY at Stony Brook location: ftp pub/XSB/XSB.tar.Z from sbcs.sunysb.edu description: XSB extends the standard functionality of Prolog (being a descendant of PSB- and SB-Prolog) to include implementations of OLDT (tabling) and HiLog terms. OLDT resolution is extremely useful for recursive query computation, allowing programs to terminate correctly in many cases where Prolog does not. HiLog supports a type of higher-order programming in which predicate symbols can be variable or structured. This allows unification to be performed on the predicate symbols themselves in addition to the arguments of the predicates. Of course, Tabling and HiLog can be used together. contact: xsb-contact@cs.sunysb.edu updated: 1993/04/13 language: Prolog package: Modular SB-Prolog version: ? parts: interpreter author: ? location: ftp pub/dts/mod-prolog.tar.Z from ftp.dcs.ed.ac.uk description: SB-Prolog version 3.1 plus modules restriction: GNU General Public License ports: Sparc contact: Brian Paxton updated: ? language: ALF [prolog variant] package: alf (Algebraic Logic Functional programming language) version: ? parts: runtime, compiler(Warren Abstract Machine) author: Rudolf Opalla location: ftp pub/programming/languages/LogicFunctional from ftp.germany.eu.net description: ALF is a language which combines functional and logic programming techniques. The foundation of ALF is Horn clause logic with equality which consists of predicates and Horn clauses for logic programming, and functions and equations for functional programming. Since ALF is an integration of both programming paradigms, any functional expression can be used in a goal literal and arbitrary predicates can occur in conditions of equations. updated: 1992/10/08 language: CLP (Constraint Logic Programming language) [Prolog variant] package: CLP(R) version: 1.2 parts: runtime, compiler(byte-code), contstraint solver author: IBM location: mail to Joxan Jaffar description: CLP(R) is a constraint logic programming language with real-arithmetic constraints. The implementation contains a built-in constraint solver which deals with linear arithmetic and contains a mechanism for delaying nonlinear constraints until they become linear. Since CLP(R) subsumes PROLOG, the system is also usable as a general-purpose logic programming language. There are also powerful facilities for meta programming with constraints. Significant CLP(R) applications have been published in diverse areas such as molecular biology, finance, physical modelling, etc. We are distributing CLP(R) in order to help widen the use of constraint programming, and to solicit feedback on the system restriction: free for academic and research purposes only ports: unix, msdos, OS/2 contact: Roland Yap , Joxan Jaffar updated: 1992/10/14 language: Prolog (variant) package: Aditi version: Beta Release parts: interpreter, database author: Machine Intelligence Project, Univ. of Melbourne, Australia location: send email to aditi@cs.mu.oz.au description: The Aditi Deductive Database System is a multi-user deductive database system. It supports base relations defined by facts (relations in the sense of relational databases) and derived relations defined by rules that specify how to compute new information from old information. Both base relations and the rules defining derived relations are stored on disk and are accessed as required during query evaluation. The rules defining derived relations are expressed in a Prolog-like language, which is also used for expressing queries. Aditi supports the full structured data capability of Prolog. Base relations can store arbitrarily nested terms, for example arbitrary length lists, and rules can directly manipulate such terms. Base relations can be indexed with B-trees or multi-level signature files. Users can access the system through a Motif-based query and database administration tool, or through a command line interface. There is also in interface that allows NU-Prolog programs to access Aditi in a transparent manner. Proper transaction processing is not supported in this release. ports: Sparc/SunOS4.1.2 Mips/Irix4.0 contact: updated: 1992/12/17 language: Lambda-Prolog package: Prolog/Mali (PM) version: ? 6/23/92 ? parts: translator(C), linker, libraries, runtime, documentation author: Pascal Brisset location: ftp pm/* from ftp.irisa.fr description: Lambda-Prolog, a logic programming language defined by Miller, is an extension of Prolog where terms are simply typed $\lambda$terms and clauses are higher order hereditary Harrop formulas. The main novelties are universal quantification on goals and implication. reference: + Miller D.A. and Nadathur G. "Higher-order logic programming", 3rd International Conference on Logic Programming, pp 448-462, London 1986. + Nadathur G. "A Higher-Order Logic as a Basis for Logic Programming", Thesis, University of Pennsylvania, 1987. requires: MALI-V06 abstract memory. MALI is available by anonymous ftp from ftp.irisa.fr ports: unix discussion: prolog-mali-request@irisa.fr contact: pm@irisa.fr updated: 1992/07/06 language: Prolog (variant) package: CORAL version: ? parts: interpreter, interface(C++), documentation author: ? location: ftp ? from ftp.cs.wisc.edu description: The CORAL deductive database/logic programming system was developed at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. The CORAL declarative language is based on Horn-clause rules with extensions like SQL's group-by and aggregation operators, and uses a Prolog-like syntax. * Many evaluation techniques are supported, including bottom-up fixpoint evaluation and top-down backtracking. * A module mechanism is available. Modules are separately compiled; different evaluation methods can be used in different modules within a single program. * Disk-resident data is supported via an interface to the Exodus storage manager. * There is an on-line help facility requires: AT&T C++ 2.0 (G++ soon) ports: Decstation, Sun4 updated: 1993/01/29 language: Prolog package: BinProlog version: 1.71 parts: interpreter?, documentation author: ? location: ftp BinProlog/* from clement.info.umoncton.ca description: BinProlog 1.71 is at this time probably the fastest freely available C-emulated Prolog. ports: IBM-PC/386, Sun-4, Sun-3, NeXT contact: Paul Tarau updated: 1993/04/03 language: prolog package: SWI-Prolog version: 1.6.12 parts: ? author: Jan Wielemaker location: ftp pub/SWI-Prolog from swi.psy.uva.nl OS/2: ftp pub/toolw/SWI/* from mpii02999.ag2.mpi-sb.mpg.de description: ? conformance: superset features: "very nice Ed. style prolog, best free one I've seen" restriction: GNU General Public License ports: Sun-4, Sun-3 (complete); Linux, DEC MIPS (done but incomplete, support needed); RS6000, PS2/AIX, Atari ST, Gould PN, NeXT, VAX, HP-UX (known problems, support needed); MSDOS (status unknown), OS/2 status: activly developed discussion: prolog-request@swi.psy.uva.nl contact: (OS/2) Andreas Toenne updated: 1993/03/05 language: Prolog package: Frolic version: ? parts: ? author: ? location: ftp pub/frolic.tar.Z from cs.utah.edu description: ? requires: Common Lisp contact: ? updated: 1991/11/23 language: Prolog package: ? Prolog package from the University of Calgary ? version: ? parts: ? author: ? location: ftp pub/prolog1.1/prolog11.tar.Z from cpsc.ucalgary.ca description: + delayed goals + interval arithmetic requires: Scheme portability: relies on continuations contact: ? updated: ? language: Prolog package: ? slog ? version: ? parts: translator(Prolog->Scheme) author: dorai@cs.rice.edu location: ftp public/slog.sh from titan.rice.edu description: macros expand syntax for clauses, elations etc, into Scheme ports: Chez Scheme portability: reliese on continuations updated: ? language: Prolog package: LM-PROLOG version: ? parts: ? author: Ken Kahn and Mats Carlsson location: ftp archives/lm-prolog.tar.Z from sics.se description: ? requires: ZetaLisp contact: ? updated: ? language: Prolog package: Open Prolog version: ? parts: ? author: ? location: ftp languages/open-prolog/* from grattan.cs.tcd.ie description: ? ports: Macintosh contact: Michael Brady updated: ? language: Prolog package: UPMAIL Tricia Prolog version: ? parts: ? author: ? location: ftp pub/Tricia/README from ftp.csd.uu.se description: ? contact: updated: ? language: Prolog package: ?; ? (two systems) version: ?; ? parts: ?; ? author: ? location: ftp ai.prolog/Contents from aisun1.ai.uga.edu description: ?; ? ports: MSDOS, Macintosh; MSDOS contact: Michael Covington updated: ?; ? language: Prolog package: XWIP (X Window Interface for Prolog) version: 0.6 parts: library author: ? location: ftp contrib/xwip-0.6.tar.Z from export.lcs.mit.edu description: It is a package for Prologs following the Quintus foreign function interface (such as SICStus). It provides a (low-level) Xlib style interface to X. The current version was developed and tested on SICStus 0.7 and MIT X11 R5 under SunOS 4.1.1. portability: It is adaptable to many other UNIX configurations. contact: xwip@cs.ucla.edu updated: 1993/02/25 language: Prolog package: PI version: ? parts: library author: ? location: ftp pub/prolog/ytoolkit.tar.Z from ftp.ncc.up.pt description: PI is a interface between Prolog applications and XWindows that aims to be independent from the Prolog engine, provided that it has a Quintus foreign function interface (such as SICStus, YAP). It is mostly written in Prolog and is divided in two libraries: Edipo - the lower level interface to the Xlib functions; and Ytoolkit - the higher level user interface toolkit contact: Ze' Paulo Leal updated: 1993/03/02 language: Prolog package: ISO draft standard version: ? (What year??) parts: language definition author: ? location: ftp ? from ftp.th-darmstadt.de description: ? updated: 1992/07/06 language: BABYLON (Prolog variant???) package: BABYLON version: ? parts: development environment author: ? location: ftp gmd/ai-research/Software/* from gmdzi.gmd.de description: BABYLON is a development environment for expert systems. It includes frames, constraints, a prolog-like logic formalism, and a description language for diagnostic applications. requires: Common Lisp ports: many ? contact: ? updated: ? language: Python package: Python version: 0.9.8 parts: interpeter, libraries, documentation, emacs macros author: Guido van Rossum location: ftp pub/python* from ftp.cwi.nl N.America: ftp pub/? from wuarchive.wustl.edu description: Python is a simple, yet powerful programming language that bridges the gap between C and shell programming, and is thus ideally suited for rapid prototyping. Its syntax is put together from constructs borrowed from a variety of other languages; most prominent are influences from ABC, C, Modula-3 and Icon. Python is object oriented and is suitable for fairly large programs. + packages + exceptions + good C interface + dynamic loading of C modules - arbitrary restrictions ports: unix and Macintosh discussion: python-list-request@cwi.nl updated: 1993/01/09 language: Q (also small subsets of Common Lisp and Scheme) package: Q version: ? 1 parts: interpreter, compiler framework, libraries, documentation author: Per Bothner location: ftp pub/Q.* from ftp.cygnus.com description: Q is a very high-level programming language, and a test-bed for programming language ideas. Where APL uses arrays to explicit looping, Q uses generalized sequences (finite or infinite, stored or calculated on demand). It has lexical scoping, and some support for logical and constraint programming. The syntax was designed for convenient interactive use. A macro facility together with primitives to run programs is used to make an interactive command language with full shell features. The Q system is written in C++, and its run-time code may be useful to people implementing other languages. ports: Linux and SUN 4 portability: Should work on 32-bit UNIX-like systems updated: 1993/06/07 language: Ratfor package: ? ratfor ? version: ? parts: translator(Ratfor->Fortran IV) author: Brian Kernighan and P.J. Plauger (wrote the book anyway) location: comp.sources.unix archives volume 13 description: Ratfor is a front end language for Fortran. It was designed to give structured control structures to Fortran. It is mainly of historical significance. updated: ? language: Y (cross between C and Ratfor) package: y+po version: ? parts: compiler author: Jack W. Davidson and Christopher W. Fraser location: ftp pub/y+po.tar.Z from ftp.cs.princeton.edu description: Davidson/Fraser peephole optimizer PO [1-3] [where the GCC RTL idea and other optimization ideas came from] along with the Y compiler [cross between C+ratfor] is ftpable from ftp.cs.princeton.edu: /pub/y+po.tar.Z. It is a copy of the original distribution from the University of Arizona during the early 80's, totally unsupported, almost forgotten [do not bug the authors] old code, possibly of interest to compiler/language hackers. reference: Jack W. Davidson and Christopher W. Fraser, "The Design and Application of a Retargetable Peephole Optimizer", TOPLAS, Apr. 1980. Jack W. Davidson, "Simplifying Code Through Peephole Optimization" Technical Report TR81-19, The University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, 1981. Jack W. Davidson and Christopher W. Fraser, "Register Allocation and Exhaustive Peephole Optimization" Software-Practice and Experience, Sep. 1984. status: history updated: ? language: Relation Grammar package: rl version: ? parts: ? author: Kent Wittenburg location: fto rl/* from flash.bellcore.com description: The RL files contain code for defining Relational Grammars and using them in a bottom-up parser to recognize and/or parse expressions in Relational Languages. The approach is a simplification of that described in Wittenburg, Weitzman, and Talley (1991), Unification-Based Grammars and Tabular Parsing for Graphical Languages, Journal of Visual Languages and Computing 2:347-370. This code is designed to support the definition and parsing of Relational Languages, which are characterized as sets of objects standing in user-defined relations. Correctness and completeness is independent of the order in which the input is given to the parser. Data to be parsed can be in many forms as long as an interface is supported for queries and predicates for the relations used in grammar productions. To date, this software has been used to parse recursive pen-based input such as math expressions and flowcharts; to check for data integrity and design conformance in databases; to automatically generate constraints in drag-and-drop style graphical interfaces; and to generate graphical displays by parsing relational data and generating output code. requires: Common Lisp ports: Allegro Common Lisp 4.1, Macintosh Common Lisp 2.0 updated: 1992/10/31 language: REXX package: Regina ? version: 0.03d parts: interpreter author: Anders Christensen location: ftp andersrexx/rexx-0.03d.tar.Z from rexx.uwaterloo.ca Europe: ftp ? from flipper.pvv.unit.no description: ? ports: unix discussion: comp.lang.rexx updated: ? language: REXX package: ? version: 102 parts: interpreter author: ? al ? location: ftp alrexx/rx102.tar.Z from rexx.uwaterloo.ca USA: ftp ? from tony.cat.syr.edu description: ? requires: C++ ports: unix discussion: comp.lang.rexx contact: ? updated: 1992/05/13 language: REXX package: imc version: 1.3 parts: interpreter author: ? location: ftp pub/freerexx/imc/rexx-imc-1.3.tar.Z from rexx.uwaterloo.ca description: ? ports: SunOS updated: ? language: S/SL (Syntax Semantic Language) package: ssl version: ? parts: parser bytecode compiler, runtime author: Rick Holt, Jim Cordy (language), Rayan Zachariassen (C implementation) location: ftp pub/ssl.tar.Z from neat.cs.toronto.edu description: A better characterization is that S/SL is a language explicitly designed for making efficient recusive-descent parsers. Unlike most other languages, practicially the LEAST expensive thing you can do in S/SL is recur. A small language that defines input/output/error token names (& values), semantic operations (which are really escapes to a programming language but allow good abstration in the pseudo-code), and a pseudo-code program that defines a grammar by the token stream the program accepts. Alternation, control flow, and 1-symbol lookahead constructs are part of the language. What I call an S/SL "implementation", is a program that compiles this S/SL pseudo-code into a table (think byte-codes) that is interpreted by the S/SL table-walker (interpreter). I think the pseudo-code language is LR(1), and that the semantic mechanisms turn it into LR(N) relatively easily. + more powerful and cleaner than yac - slower than yacc reference: + Cordy, J.R. and Holt, R.C. [1980] Specification of S/SL: Syntax/Semantic Language, Computer Systems Research Institute, University of Toronto. + "An Introduction to S/SL: Syntax/Semantic Language" by R.C. Holt, J.R. Cordy, and D.B. Wortman, in ACM Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems (TOPLAS), Vol 4, No. 2, April 1982, Pages 149-178. updated: 1989/09/25 language: Sather package: Sather programming language and environment version: 0.2i parts: translator(C), debugger, libraries, documentation, emacs macros author: International Computer Science Institute in Berkeley, CA location: ftp pub/sather/sa-0.2i.tar.Z from ftp.icsi.berkeley.edu Europe: ftp pub/Sather/* from ftp.gmd.de Australia: ftp pub/sather/* from lynx.csis.dit.csiro.au Japan: ftp pub/lang/sather/* from sra.co.jp description: Sather is a new object-oriented computer language developed at the International Computer Science Institute. It is derived from Eiffel and attempts to retain much of that language's theoretical cleanliness and simplicity while achieving the efficiency of C++. It has clean and simple syntax, parameterized classes, object-oriented dispatch, multiple inheritance, strong typing, and garbage collection. The compiler generates efficient and portable C code which is easily integrated with existing code. package: A variety of development tools including a debugger and browser based on gdb and a GNU Emacs development environment have also been developed. There is also a class library with several hundred classes that implement a variety of basic data structures and numerical, geometric, connectionist, statistical, and graphical abstractions. We would like to encourage contributions to the library and hope to build a large collection of efficient, well-written, well-tested classes in a variety of areas of computer science. conformance: reference implemantation bugs: sather-admin@icsi.berkeley.edu ports: Sun-4 HP9000/300 Decstation5000 MIPS SonyNews3000 Sequent/Dynix SCO SysVR3.2 NeXT (from others: RS6000 SGI) portability: high status: actively developed. discussion: sather-request@icsi.berkeley.edu updated: 1992/07/02 language: Scheme package: Schematik version: 1.1.5.2 parts: programming environment author: Chris Kane, Max Hailperin location: ftp /pub/next/scheme/* from ftp.gac.edu Europe: ftp /pub/next/ProgLang from ftp.informatik.uni-muenchen.de description: Schematik is a NeXT front-end to MIT Scheme for the NeXT. It provides syntax-knowledgeable text editing, graphics windows, and user-interface to an underlying MIT Scheme process. It comes packaged with MIT Scheme 7.1.3 ready to install on the NeXT. ports: NeXT, MIT Scheme 7.1.3 portability: requires NeXTSTEP contact: schematik@gac.edu updated: 1993/03/11 language: Scheme package: T version: 3.1 parts: compiler author: ? location: ftp pub/systems/t3.1 from ftp.ai.mit.edu description: a Scheme-like language developed at Yale. T is written in itself and compiles to efficient native code. (A multiprocessing version of T is available from masala.lcs.mit.edu:/pub/mult) bugs: t3-bugs@cs.yale.edu ports: Decstation, Sparc, sun-3, Vax(unix), Encore, HP, Apollo, Mac (A/UX) contact: t-project@cs.yale.edu. updated: 1991/11/26 language: Scheme package: scm version: 4c0 parts: interpreter, conformance test, documentation author: Aubrey Jaffer location: ftp archive/scm/* from altdorf.ai.mit.edu Canada: ftp pub/oz/scheme/new from nexus.yorku.ca description: ? conformance: superset of Revised^3.99 Report on the Algorithmic Language Scheme and the IEEE P1178 specification. restriction: GNU General Public License ports: unix, amiga, atari, mac, MSDOS, nos/ve, vms status: actively developed contributions: send $$$ to Aubrey Jaffer, 84 Pleasant St., Wakefield, MA 01880 updated: 1993/03/30 language: Scheme package: Scheme Library (slib) version: 1d2 parts: library, documentation author: ? location: ftp archive/scm/slib1b*.tar.Z from altdorf.ai.mit.edu description: SLIB is a portable scheme library meant to provide compatibiliy and utility functions for all standard scheme implementations. ports: Scm4b, Chez, ELK 1.5, GAMBIT, MITScheme, Scheme->C, Scheme48, T3.1. status: actively developed contact: Aubrey Jaffer updated: 1993/05/14 language: Scheme package: Hobbit version: release 2 parts: translator(->C), documentation author: Tanel Tammet location: ftp archive/scm/hobbit2.tar.Z from altdorf.ai.mit.edu description: The main aim of hobbit is to produce maximally fast C programs which would retain most of the original Scheme program structure, making the output C program readable and modifiable. Hobbit is written in Scheme and is able to self-compile. Hobbit release 1 works together with the scm release scm4b3. Future releases of scm and hobbit will be coordinated. requires: scm 4b3 updated: 1993/04/25 language: Scheme package: siod (Scheme In One Day, or Scheme In One Defun) version: 2.9 parts: ? author: George Carrette location: ftp src/lisp/siod-v2.8-shar from world.std.com description: Small scheme implementation in C arranged as a set of subroutines that can be called from any main program for the purpose of introducing an interpreted extension language. Compiles to ~20K bytes of executable. Lisp calls C and C calls Lisp transparently. ports: VAX/VMS, VAX UNIX, Sun3, Sun4, Amiga, Macintosh, MIPS, Cray updated: 1992/09/01 language: Scheme package: MIT Scheme (aka C-Scheme) version: 7.2 parts: interpreter, large runtime library, emacs macros, native-code compiler, emacs-like editor, source-level debugger author: MIT Scheme Team (primarily Chris Hanson, Jim Miller, and Bill Rozas, but also many others) location: ftp archive/scheme-7.2 from altdorf.ai.mit.edu DOS floppies ($95) and Unix tar tapes ($200) from Scheme Team / c/o Prof. Hal Abelson / MIT AI Laboratory / 545 Technology Sq. / Cambridge, MA 02139 description: Scheme implementation with rich set of utilities. conformance: full compatibility with Revised^4 Report on Scheme, one known incompatibility with IEEE Scheme standard bugs: bug-cscheme@zurich.ai.mit.edu ports: 68k (hp9000, sun3, NeXT), MIPS (Decstation, Sony, SGI), HP-PA (600, 700, 800), Vax (Ultrix, BSD), Alpha (OSF), i386 (DOS/Windows, various Unix) status: activly developed discussion: info-cscheme@zurich.ai.mit.edu (cross-posted to comp.lang.scheme.c) updated: 1992/08/24 language: Scheme package: Scheme->C version: 15mar93 parts: translator(C) author: Digital Western Research Laboratory; Joel Bartlett location: ftp pub/DEC/Scheme-to-C/* from gatekeeper.dec.com description: Translates Revised**4 Scheme to C that is then compiled by the native C compiler for the target machine. This design results in a portable system that allows either stand-alone Scheme programs or programs written in both compiled and interpreted Scheme and other languages. conformance: superset of Revised**4 + "expansion passing style" macros + foreign function call capability + interfaces to Xlib (Ezd & Scix) + records reference: send Subject "help" to WRL-Techreports@decwrl.dec.com for technical report. Other documentation in Scheme-to-C directory on gatekeeper. ports: VAX/ULTRIX, DECstation ULTRIX, Alpha AXP OSF/1, Microsoft Windows 3.1, Apple Macintosh 7.1, HP 9000/300, HP 9000/700, Sony News, SGI Iris and Harris Nighthawk and other UNIX-like m88k systems. The 01nov91 version is also available on Amiga, SunOS, NeXT, and Apollo systems. status: actively developed, contributed ports welcomed updated: 1993/03/15 language: Scheme package: PC-Scheme version: 3.03 parts: compiler, debugger, profiler, editor, libraries author: Texas Instruments location: ftp archive/pc-scheme/* from altdorf.ai.mit.edu description: Written by Texas Instruments. Runs on MS-DOS 286/386 IBM PCs and compatibles. Includes an optimizing compiler, an emacs-like editor, inspector, debugger, performance testing, foreign function interface, window system and an object-oriented subsystem. Also supports the dialect used in Abelson and Sussman's SICP. conformance: Revised^3 Report, also supports dialect used in SICP. restriction: official version is $95, contact rww@ibuki.com ports: MSDOS updated: 1992/02/23 language: Scheme package: PCS/Geneva version: ? parts: compiler, debugger, profiler, editor, libraries author: ? location: send email to schemege@uni2a.unige.ch description: PCS/Geneva is a cleaned-up version of Texas Instrument's PC Scheme developed at the University of Geneva. The main extensions to PC Scheme are 486 support, BGI graphics, LIM-EMS pagination support, line editing, and assmebly-level interfacing. contact: schemege@uni2a.unige.ch updated: ? language: Scheme package: Gambit Scheme System version: 2.0 parts: interpreter, compiler, linker author: Marc Feeley location: ftp pub/gambit1.7.1/* from trex.iro.umontreal.ca description: Gambit is an optimizing Scheme compiler/system. conformance: IEEE Scheme standard and `future' construct. restriction: Mac version of compiler & source costs $40. ports: 68k: unix, sun3, hp300, bbn gp100, NeXT, Macintosh updated: ? language: Scheme package: Elk (Extension Language Kit) version: 2.0 parts: interpreter author: Oliver Laumann , Carsten Bormann ? location: ftp pub/elk/elk-2.0.tar.Z from tub.cs.tu-berlin.de N.America: ftp contrib/elk-2.0.tar.Z from export.lcs.mit.edu description: Elk is a Scheme interpreter designed to be used as a general extension language. + interfaces to Xlib, Xt, and various widget sets. + dynamic loading of extensions + almost all artificial limitations removed conformance: Mostly R3RS compatable. ports: unix, ultrix, vax, sun3, sun4, 68k, i386, mips, ibm rt, rs6000, hp700, sgi, sony updated: 1992/11/30 language: Scheme package: ezd - easy drawing for programs on X displays version: 15mar93 parts: interpreter/server author: ? location: ftp pub/DEC/ezd/* from gatekeeper.dec.com description: Ezd is a graphics server that sits between an application program and the X server and allows both existing and new programs easy access to structured graphics. Ezd users have been able to have their programs produce interactive drawings within hours of reading the man page. Structured graphics: application defined graphical objects are ordered into drawings by the application. Loose coupling to the application program: unlike most X tools, ezd does not require any event handling by the application. The ezd server mantains window contents. When an event occurs on such an object, an application supplied Scheme expression is evaluated. contact: Joel Bartlett ? updated: 1993/03/10 language: Scheme package: XScheme version: 0.28 parts: ? author: David Betz location: ftp pub/scheme/* from nexus.yorku.ca description: ? discussion: comp.lang.lisp.x contact: ? updated: 1992/02/02 language: Scheme package: Fools' Lisp version: 1.3.2 parts: ? author: Jonathan Lee location: ftp src/local/fools.tar.Z from scam.berkeley.edu description: a small Scheme interpreter that is R4RS conformant. ports: Sun-3, Sun-4, Decstation, Vax (ultrix), Sequent, Apollo updated: 1991/10/31 language: Scheme package: Scheme84 version: ? parts: ? author: ? location: Send a tape w/return postage to: Scheme84 Distribution / Nancy Garrett / c/o Dan Friedman / Department of Computer Science / Indiana University / Bloomington, Indiana. Call 1-812-335-9770. description: ? requires: VAX, Franz Lisp, VMS or BSD contact: nlg@indiana.edu updated: ? language: Scheme package: Scheme88 version: ? parts: ? author: ? location: ftp pub/scheme/* from nexus.yorku.ca description: ? contact: ? updated: ? language: Scheme package: UMB Scheme version: ? parts: ?, editor, debugger author: William Campbell location: ftp pub/scheme/* from nexus.yorku.ca description: ? conformance: R4RS Scheme ports: ? updated: ? language: Scheme package: PseudoScheme version: 2.8 parts: translator(Common Lisp) author: Jonathan Rees location: ? description: ? conformance: R3RS except call/cc. requires: Common Lisp ports: Lucid, Symbolics CL, VAX Lisp, Explorer CL announcements: info-clscheme-request@mc.lcs.mit.edu updated: ? language: Scheme package: Similix version: 5.0 parts: partial evaulator, debugger author: ? location: ftp pub/diku/dists/Similix.tar.Z from ftp.diku.dk description: Similix is an autoprojector (self-applicable partial evaluator) for a higher order subset of the strict functional language Scheme. Similix handles programs with user defined primitive abstract data type operators which may process global variables (such as input/output operators). conformance: superset of R4RS understood, subset acted upon; R3RS groked too requires: Scheme ports: Scm, Chez Scheme portability: high contact: Anders Bondorf updated: 1993/05/18 language: Scheme package: ? syntax-case ? version: 2.1 parts: macro system, documentation author: R. Kent Dybvig location: ftp pub/scheme/syntax-case.tar.Z from iuvax.cs.indiana.edu description: We have designed and implemented a macro system that is vastly superior to the low-level system described in the Revised^4 Report; in fact, it essentially eliminates the low level altogether. We also believe it to be superior to the other proposed low-level systems as well, but each of you can judge that for yourself. We have accomplished this by "lowering the level" of the high-level system slightly, making pattern variables ordinary identifiers with essentially the same status as lexical variable names and macro keywords, and by making "syntax" recognize and handle references to pattern variables. reference: + Robert Hieb, R. Kent Dybvig, and Carl Bruggeman "Syntactic Abstraction in Scheme", IUCS TR #355, 6/92 (revised 7/3/92) + R. Kent Dybvig, "Writing Hygienic Macros in Scheme with Syntax-Case", IUCS TR #356, 6/92 (revised 7/3/92). ports: Chez Scheme updated: 1992/07/06 language: Scheme package: x-scm version: ? parts: ? author: Larry Campbell location: alt.sources archive description: x-scm is a bolt-on accessory for the "scm" Scheme interpreter that provides a handy environment for building Motif and OpenLook applications. (There is some support as well for raw Xlib applications, but not enough yet to be useful.) requires: scm, X ports: ? updated: 1992/08/10 language: Scheme, Prolog package: "Paradigms of AI Programming" version: ? parts: book with interpreters and compilers in Common Lisp author: Peter Norvig location: bookstore, and ftp pub/norvig/* from unix.sri.com description: ? updated: ? language: Scheme package: PSD (Portable Scheme Debugger) version: 1.0 parts: debugger author: Kellom{ki Pertti location: ftp /pub/src/languages/schemes/psd.tar.Z from cs.tut.fi description: source code debugging from emacs restriction: GNU GPL requires: R4RS compliant Scheme, GNU Emacs. updated: 1992/07/10 language: Scheme package: Tiny Clos version: first release parts: ? author: ? location: ftp pub/mops/* from parcftp.xerox.com description: A core part of CLOS (Common Lisp Object System) ported to Scheme and rebuilt using a MOP (Metaobject Protocol). This should be interesting to those who want to use MOPs without using a full Common Lisp or Dylan. ports: MIT Scheme 11.74 discussion: mailing list: mops, administered by gregor@parc.xerox.com contact: Gregor Kiczales updated: 1992/12/14 language: Scheme package: VSCM II version: 93Apr12 parts: runtime, bytecode compiler author: Matthias Blume location: ftp pub/scheme/imp/vscm*.tar.Z from nexus.yorku.ca description: VSCM is an implementation of Scheme based on a virtual machine written in ANSI C. conformance: conforms to the R4RS report portability: very high updated: 1993/04/12 language: Scheme package: PSI version: pre-release parts: interpreter, virtual machine author: Ozan Yigit , David Keldsen, Pontus Hedman location: from author description: I am looking for a few interested language hackers to play with and comment on a scheme interpreter. I would prefer those who have been hacking portable [non-scheme] interpreters for many years. The interpreter is PSI, a portable scheme interpreter that includes a simple dag compiler and a virtual machine. It can be used as an integrated extension interpreter in other systems, allows for easy addition of new primitives, and it embodies some other interesting ideas. There are some unique[2] code debug/trace facilities, as well, acceptable performance resulting from a fairly straight-forward implementation. Continuations are fully and portably supported, and perform well. PSI is based on the simple compilers/vm in Kent Dbyvig's thesis. conformance: R^4RS compatible with a number of useful extensions. updated: 1993/02/19 language: Scheme package: Bigloo version: initial parts: interpreter, translator(ANSI C), runtime author: Manuel Serrano location: ftp pub/local/icsla/* from ftp.inria.fr description: The main goal of Bigloo is to deliver small and fast stand alone applications. conformance: IEEE Scheme standard with some extensions for regex handling ports: sun, sony news, sgi, linux, hp-ux portability: very high for unix systems updated: 1993/05/13 language: sed package: GNU sed version: 1.17 parts: interpreter, ? author: ? location: ftp sed-1.17.tar.z from a GNU archive site description: ? bugs: bug-gnu-utils@ai.mit.edu contact: ? updated: 1993/05/27 language: Self package: Self version: 2.0 parts: ?, compiler?, debugger, browser author: The Self Group at Sun Microsystems & Stanford University location: ftp ? from self.stanford.edu description: The Self Group at Sun Microsystems Laboratories, Inc., and Stanford University is pleased to announce Release 2.0 of the experimental object-oriented exploratory programming language Self. Release 2.0 introduces full source-level debugging of optimized code, adaptive optimization to shorten compile pauses, lightweight threads within Self, support for dynamically linking foreign functions, changing programs within Self, and the ability to run the experimental Self graphical browser under OpenWindows. Designed for expressive power and malleability, Self combines a pure, prototype-based object model with uniform access to state and behavior. Unlike other languages, Self allows objects to inherit state and to change their patterns of inheritance dynamically. Self's customizing compiler can generate very efficient code compared to other dynamically-typed object-oriented languages. ports: Sun-3 (no optimizer), Sun-4 portability: ? [Can it be ported to non-Sun or non-UNIX systems?] discussion: self-request@self.stanford.edu contact: ? updated: 1992/08/13 language: SGML (Standardized Generalized Markup Language) package: sgmls version: 1.1 parts: parser author: James Clark and Charles Goldfarb location: ftp pub/text-processing/sgml/sgmls-1.0.tar.Z from ftp.uu.net UK: ftp sgmls/sgmls-1.1.tar.Z from ftp.jclark.com description: SGML is a markup language standardized in ISO 8879. Sgmls is an SGML parser derived from the ARCSGML parser materials which were written by Charles Goldfarb. It outputs a simple, easily parsed, line oriented, ASCII representation of an SGML document's Element Structure Information Set (see pp 588-593 of ``The SGML Handbook''). It is intended to be used as the front end for structure-controlled SGML applications. SGML is an important move in the direction of separating information from its presentation, i.e. making different presentations possible for the same information. bugs: James Clark ports: unix, msdos updated: 1993/02/22 language: Korn Shell package: SKsh version: 2.1 parts: interpreter, utilities author: Steve Koren location: ftp pub/amiga/incom*/utils/SKsh021.lzh from hubcap.clemson.edu description: SKsh is a Unix ksh-like shell which runs under AmigaDos. it provides a Unix like environment but supports many AmigaDos features such as resident commands, ARexx, etc. Scripts can be written to run under either ksh or SKsh, and many of the useful Unix commands such as xargs, grep, find, etc. are provided. ports: Amiga updated: 1992/12/16 language: Korn Shell package: bash (Bourne Again SHell) version: 1.12 parts: parser(yacc), interpreter, documentation author: Brian Fox location: ftp bash-1.12.tar.Z from a GNU archive site description: Bash is a Posix compatable shell with full Bourne shell syntax, and some C-shell commands built in. The Bourne Again Shell supports emacs-style command-line editing, job control, functions, and on-line help. bugs: gnu.bash.bug restriction: GNU General Public License updated: 1992/01/28 language: Korn Shell package: pd-ksh version: 4.8 parts: ? author: Simon J. Gerraty location: ? description: ? contact: Simon J Gerraty (zen.void.oz.au is down) updated: ? language: csh (C-Shell) package: tcsh version: 6.03 parts: interpreter author: Christos Zoulas location: ftp ? from ftp.spc.edu description: a modified C-Shell with history editing ports: unix, OpenVMS updated: 1992/12/16 language: rc (Plan 9 shell) package: rc version: 1.4 parts: interpretor author: Byron Rakitzis location: comp.sources.misc volume 30; or ftp pub/shells/* from ftp.white.toronto.edu description: a free implementation of the Plan 9 shell. discussion: rc-request@hawkwind.utcs.toronto.edu updated: 1992/05/26 language: es (a functional shell) package: es version: 0.84 parts: interpreter author: Byron Rakitzis , Paul Haahr location: ftp pub/es/es-0.84.tar.Z from ftp.sys.utoronto.ca description: shell with higher order functions + builtin features implemented as redefineable functions updated: 1993/04/30 language: Z-shell package: zsh version: 2.3.1 (2.4 in beta) parts: interpreter author: Paul Falstad location: ftp pub/bas/zsh/zsh-*.tar.z from carlo.phys.uva.nl description: zsh is most similar to ksh, while many of the additions are to please csh users. features: + multi-line commands editable as a single buffer, + variable editing (vared), + command buffer stack, + recursive globbing, + manipulation of arrays, + spelling correction. ports: Berkeley-based UNIX, SVR4-based UNIX discussion: zsh-request@cs.uow.edu.au contact: zsh-list@cs.uow.edu.au updated: 1993/03/23 language: ssh (Steve's Shell) package: ssh version: 1.7 parts: interpreter author: Steve Baker with help from Thomas Moore location: comp.sources.unix volume 26 description: A unix shell with a lot of csh/ksh-like features. ports: sequent, sun, next, ultrix, bsdi updated: 1993/04/15 language: ERGO (a window-based UNIX shell) package: ERGO shell version: 2.1 parts: interpreter author: Regine Freitag (freitag@gmd.de) location: ftp from ftp.gmd.de (129.26.8.90) in /gmd/ergo/ description: An ergonomic window-based UNIX shell for software engineers. bugs: Relative path names are not expanded on the SUN 3 port, expansion ability on SUN 4 only on certain conditions. requires: Needs X-windows (X11R4) or OSF/Motif (revision 1.1) ports: Sun 4 portability: ? (Sun specific?) contact: Dr. Wolfgang Dzida, GMD (dzida@gmd.de) or the author updated: 1993/06/04 language: Simula package: Lund Simula version: 4.07 parts: ? author: ? location: ftp misc/mac/programming/+_Simula/* from rascal.ics.utexas.edu description: ? contact: Lund Software House AB / Box 7056 / S-22007 Lund, Sweden updated: 1992/05/22 language: Simula package: Cim version: 1.10 parts: translator(->C), ? author: Sverre Johansen, Stenk Krogdahl and Terje Mjos location: ftp cim/* from ftp.ifi.uio.no description: Cim is a compiler for the programming language Simula. from Department of informatics, University of Oslo It offers a class concept, separate compilation with full type checking, interface to external C-routines, an application package for process simulation and a coroutine concept. Cim is a Simula compiler whose portability is based on the C programming language. The compiler and the run-time system is written in C, and the compiler produces C-code, that is passed to a C-compiler for further processing towards machine code. conformance: except unspecified parameters to formal or virtual procedures ports: Vax (Ultrix,VMS), 68020/30 (SunOS,Next,HPUX), sparc (Sunos), mips (SGI,Dec,CD), 9000s705 (HPUX), alpha (OSF/1), m88k (Triton,Aviion), Apollo, Cray (YMP), Encore Multimax, 9000s800 (HPUX), 386/486 (LINUX,SCO,Interactive), Atari (MINIX) and Comodore Amiga (AmigaDos), contact: cim@ifi.uio.no updated: 1993/02/25 language: SISAL 1.2 package: The Optimizing SISAL Compiler version: 12.0 parts: compiler?, manuals, documentation, examples, debugger,... author: David C. Cann location: ftp pub/sisal from sisal.llnl.gov description: Sisal is a functional language designed to be competitive with Fortran, and other imperative languages for scientific jobs. In particualar, OSC uses advanced optimizing techniques to achieve fast speeds for computation intensive programs. It also features routines for making efficient use of parallel processors, such as that on the Cray. ports: ? updated: ? language: S-Lang package: slang version: ? 1 parts: interpreter, documentation, examples author: John E. Davis (davis@amy.tch.harvard.edu) location: ftp amy.tch.harvard.edu:pub/slang/ description: A small but highly functional embedded interpreter. S-Lang is a stack-based postfix language resembling FORTH and BC/DC. ports: MSDOS, UNIX, VMS portability: Must be compiled with large memory model on MSDOS. updated: 1993/06/07 language: Smalltalk package: Little Smalltalk version: 3 parts: ? author: Tim Budd ? location: ftp pub/budd/? from cs.orst.edu description: ? ports: unix, pc, atari, vms status: ? updated: ? language: Smalltalk package: GNU Smalltalk version: 1.1.1 parts: ? author: Steven Byrne location: ftp smalltalk-1.1.1.tar.Z from a GNU archive site description: ? bugs: gnu.smalltalk.bug discussion: ? contact: ? updated: 1991/09/15 language: Smalltalk package: msgGUI version: 1.0 parts: library author: Mark Bush location: ftp pub/Packages/mst/mstGUI-1.0.tar.Z from ftp.comlab.ox.ac.uk description: GUI for GNU Smalltalk. This this package contains the basics for creating window applications in the manner available in other graphical based Smalltalk implementations. updated: 1992/12/14 language: Smalltalk package: Mei version: 0.50 parts: interpreters(Lisp,Prolog), examples, libraries, tools, editor, browser author: Atsushi Aoki and others location: ftp pub/goodies/misc/Mei.tar.Z from mushroom.cs.man.ac.uk N.America: ftp pub/MANCHESTER/misc/Mei from st.cs.uiuc.edu Japan: ftp pub/lang/smalltalk/mei/Mei0.50.tar.Z from srawgw.sra.co.jp description: Mei is a set of class libraries for Objectworks Smalltalk Release 4.1. it includes: 1. Grapher Library (useful for drawing diagrams); 2. Meta Grapher Library (grapher to develop grapher); 3. Drawing tools and painting tools (structured diagram editors and drawing editors); 4. GUI editor (graphical user interface builder); 5. Lisp interpreter; 6. Prolog interpreter; 7. Pluggable gauges; 8. Extended browser; (package, history, recover, etc.) restriction: GNU General Public License requires: Objectworks Smalltalk Release 4.1 contact: Watanabe Katsuhiro updated: 1993/01/20 language: Snobol4 package: SIL (Macro Implementation of SNOBOL4) version: 3.11 parts: ? author: ? location: ftp snobol4/* from cs.arizona.edu description: ? contact: snobol4@arizona.edu updated: 1986/07/29 language: Snobol4 package: vinilla version: ? parts: ? author: Catspaw, Inc. location: ftp snobol4/vanilla.arc from cs.arizona.edu description: ? ports: MSDOS contact: ? updated: 1992/02/05 language: SR (Synchronizing Resources) package: sr version: 2.0 parts: ?, documentation, tests author: ? location: ftp sr/sr.tar.Z from cs.arizona.edu description: SR is a language for writing concurrent programs. The main language constructs are resources and operations. Resources encapsulate processes and variables they share; operations provide the primary mechanism for process interaction. SR provides a novel integration of the mechanisms for invoking and servicing operations. Consequently, all of local and remote procedure call, rendezvous, message passing, dynamic process creation, multicast, and semaphores are supported. reference: "The SR Programming Language: Concurrency in Practice", by Gregory R. Andrews and Ronald A. Olsson, Benjamin/Cummings Publishing Company, 1993, ISBN 0-8053-0088-0 ports: Sun-4, Sun-3, Decstation, SGI Iris, HP PA, HP 9000/300, NeXT, Sequent Symmetry, DG AViiON, RS/6000, Multimax, Apollo, and others. discussion: info-sr-request@cs.arizona.edu contact: sr-project@cs.arizona.edu updated: 1992/09/01 language: TCL (Tool Command Language) package: TCL version: 6.6 parts: interpreter, libraries, tests, documentation author: John Ousterhout location: ftp tcl/tcl6.6.tar.Z from sprite.berkeley.edu MSDOS: ftp ? from cajal.uoregon.edu Macintosh: ftp pub/ticl from bric-a-brac.apple.com Examples: ftp tcl/* from barkley.berkeley.edu description: TCL started out as a small language that could be embedded in applications. It has now been extended into more of a general purpose shell type programming language. TCL is like a text-oriented Lisp, but lets you write algebraic expressions for simplicity and to avoid scaring people away. + may be used as an embedded interpreter + exceptions, packages (called libraries) - only a single name-space + provide/require - no dynamic loading ability + 8-bit clean - only three variable types: strings, lists, associative arrays bugs: ? ports: ? discussion: comp.lang.tcl updated: 1993/02/23 language: TCL package: BOS - The Basic Object System version: 1.31 parts: library author: Sean Levy location: ftp tcl/? from barkley.berkeley.edu description: BOS is a C-callable library that implements the notion of object and which uses Tcl as its interpreter for interpreted methods (you can have "compiled" methods in C, and mix compiled and interpreted methods in the same object, plus lots more stuff). I regularly (a) subclass and (b) mixin existing objects using BOS to extend, among other things, the set of tk widgets (I have all tk widgets wrapped with BOS "classes"). BOS is a class-free object system, also called a prototype-based object system; it is modeled loosely on the Self system from Stanford. updated: 1992/08/21 language: TCL package: Wafe version: 0.94 parts: interface author: Gustaf Neumann location: ftp pub/src/X11/wafe/wafe-0.94.tar.Z from ftp.wu-wien.ac.at description: Wafe (Widget[Athena]front end) is a package that implements a symbolic interface to the Athena widgets (X11R5) and OSF/Motif. A typical Wafe application consists of two parts: a front-end (Wafe) and an application program which runs typically as a separate process. The distribution contains sample application programs in Perl, GAWK, Prolog, TCL, C and Ada talking to the same Wafe binary. discussion: send "subscribe Wafe " to listserv@wu-wien.ac.at updated: 1993/02/13 language: TCL package: Cygnus Tcl Tools version: Release-930124 parts: ? author: david d 'zoo' zuhn location: ftp pub/tcltools-* from cygnus.com description: A rebundling of Tcl and Tk into the Cyngus GNU build framework with 'configure'. updated: 1993/01/24 language: Tiny package: Omega test, Extended Tiny version: 3.0.0 parts: translator(fortran->tiny), tiny interpreter?, analysis tools author: William Pugh and others location: ftp pub/omega from ftp.cs.umd.edu description: The Omega test is implemented in an extended version of Michael Wolfe's tiny tool, a research/educational tool for examining array data dependence algorithms and program transformations for scientific computations. The extended version of tiny can be used as a educational or research tool. The Omega test: A system for performing symbolic manipulations of conjunctions of linear constraints over integer variables. The Omega test dependence analyzer: A system built on top of the Omega test to analyze array data dependences. contact: omega@cs.umd.edu updated: 1992/12/14 language: Extended Tiny package: Extended Tiny version: 3.0 (Dec 12th, 1992) parts: programming environment, dependence tester, tests translator(Fortran->tiny), documentation, tech. reports author: original author: Michael Wolfe , extended by William Pugh et al. location: ftp pub/omega from cs.umd.edu description: A research/educational tool for experimenting with array data dependence tests and reordering transformations. It works with a language tiny, which does not have procedures, goto's, pointers, or other features that complicate dependence testing. The original version of tiny was written by Michael Wolfe, and has been extended substantially by a research group at the University of Maryland. Michael Wolfe has made further extensions to his version of tiny. ports: Any unix system (xterm helpful but not required) contact: Omega test research group updated: 1993/01/23 language: troff, nroff, eqn, tbl, pic, refer, Postscript, dvi package: groff version: 1.07 parts: document formatter, documentation author: James Clark location: ftp groff-1.07.tar.z from a GNU archive site description: [An absolutely fabulous troff --muir] restriction: GNU General Public License requires: C++ updated: 1993/03/03 language: UNITY package: MasPar Unity version: 1.0 parts: translator(UNITY->MPL), documentation author: Martin Huber, University of Karlsruhe, Germany location: ftp pub/maspar/maspar_unity* from SanFrancisco.ira.uka.de description: ? contact: Lutz Prechelt updated: ? language: UNITY package: HOL-UNITY version: 2.1 parts: verification tool author: ? location: ? description: ? contact: Flemming Andersen ? updated: ? language: Verilog, XNF package: XNF to Verilog Translator version: ? parts: translator(XNF->Verilog) author: M J Colley location: ftp pub/dank/xnf2ver.tar.Z from punisher.caltech.edu description: This program was written by a postgraduate student as part of his M.Sc course, it was designed to form part a larger system operating with the Cadence Edge 2.1 framework. This should be bourne in mind when considering the construction and/or operation of the program. updated: ? language: VHDL package: ALLIANCE version: 1.1 parts: compiler, simulator, tools and environment, documentation author: ? location: ftp pub/cao-vlsi/alliance from ftp-masi.ibp.fr description: ALLIANCE 1.1 is a complete set of CAD tools for teaching Digital CMOS VLSI Design in Universities. It includes VHDL compiler and simulator, logic synthesis tools, automatic place and route, etc... ALLIANCE is the result of a ten years effort at University Pierre et Marie Curie (PARIS VI, France). ports: Sun4, also not well supported: Mips/Ultrix, 386/SystemV discussion: alliance-request@masi.ibp.fr contact: cao-vlsi@masi.ibp.fr updated: 1993/02/16 language: Web package: web2c version: 5-851d parts: translator(C) author: ? location: ftp TeX/web2c.tar.Z from ics.uci.edu Europe: ftp pub/tex/src/web2c/web2c.tar.Z from ftp.th-darmstadt.de description: contact: Karl Berry updated: 1993/02/22 language: Web package: Web version: ? parts: translator(Pascal) author: Donald Knuth location: ftp ? from labrea.stanford.edu description: Donald Knuth's programming language where you write the source and documentation together. requires: Pascal contact: ? updated: ? language: Web package: FunnelWeb version: ? parts: macro preprocessor, documentation, tests, ? author: Ross Williams location: comp.sources.unix volume 26 description: FunnelWeb is a production-quality literate-programming tool that emphasises simplicity and reliability. It provides a macro facility, and assists in the production of typeset documentation. Input-programming-language independent restriction: CopyLeft ports: Sun, Vax, Mac, PC updated: 1993/04/11 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------- references -------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- name: Catalog of embeddable Languages. version: 2 author: Colas Nahaboo how to get: posted to comp.lang.misc,comp.lang.tcl; ftp pub/EmbeddedInterpretersCatalog.txt from avahi.inria.fr description: Descriptions of languages from the point of view of embedding them. updated: 1992/07/09 name: Compilers bibliography version: 1.4 author: Cheryl Lins how to get: ftp pub/oberon/comp_bib_1.4.Z from ftp.apple.com description: It includes all the POPLs, PLDIs, Compiler Construction, TOPLAS, and LOPAS. Plus various articles and papers from other sources on compilers and related topics updated: 1992/10/31 name: Language List version: 1.9 author: Bill Kinnersley how to get: posted regularly to comp.lang.misc; ftp pub/comp.compilers/LanguageList* from primost.cs.wisc.edu; ftp pub/compilers-list/LanguageList* from idiom.berkeley.ca.us description: Descriptions of almost every computer langauge there is. Many references to available source code. updated: 1993/01/13 name: The Lisp FAQs version: 1.30 author: Mark Kantrowitz how to get: posted regularly to comp.lang.lisp,news.answers,comp.answers description: Details of many lisps and systems written in lisps including many languages not elsewhere. updated: 1993/02/08 name: Survey of Interpreted Languages version: ? author: Terrence Monroe Brannon how to get: Posted to comp.lang.tcl,comp.lang.misc,comp.lang.perl, gnu.emacs.help,news.answers; or ftp pub/gnu/emacs/elisp-ar*/pack*/Hy*Act*F*/survey-inter*-languages from archive.cis.ohio-state.edu. description: Detailed comparision of a few interpreters: Emacs Lisp, Perl, Python, and Tcl. updated: ? name: The Apple II Programmer's Catalog of Languages and Toolkits version: 2.2 author: Larry W. Virden how to get: posted to comp.sys.apple2, comp.lang.misc; ftp from idiom.berkeley.ca.us description: A survey of language tools available for the Apple ][. updated: 1993/04/28 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ archives --------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- language: Ada package: AdaX description: an archive of X libraries for Ada. Includes Motif [note, I chose this server out of many somewhat randomly. Use archie to find others --muir] location: ftp pub/AdaX/* from falcon.stars.rosslyn.unisys.com contact: ? language: APL, J package: APL, J, and other APL Software at Waterloo location: ftp languages/apl/index from watserv1.waterloo.edu contact: Leroy J. (Lee) Dickey language: C, C++, Objective C, yacc, lex, postscript, sh, awk, smalltalk, sed package: the GNU archive sites description: There are many sites which mirror the master gnu archives which live on prep.ai.mit.edu. Please do not use the master archive without good reason. location: NOTE: Many gnu files are now compressed with gzip. You can tell a gzip'ed file because it has a lower-case .z or .gz rather than the capital .Z that compress uses. Gzip is available from these same archives ftp pub/gnu/* from prep.ai.mit.edu USA: ftp mirrors4/gnu/* from wuarchive.wustl.edu ftp pub/src/gnu/* from ftp.cs.widener.edu ftp gnu/* from uxc.cso.uiuc.edu ftp mirrors/gnu/* from col.hp.com ftp pub/GNU/* from gatekeeper.dec.com ftp packages/gnu/* from ftp.uu.net Japan: ftp ? from ftp.cs.titech.ac.jp ftp ftpsync/prep/* from utsun.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp Australia: ftp gnu/* from archie.au Europe: ftp gnu/* from src.doc.ic.ac.uk ftp pub/GNU/*/* from ftp.informatik.tu-muenchen.de [re-org'ed] ftp pub/gnu/* from ftp.informatik.rwth-aachen.de ftp pub/gnu/* from nic.funet.fi ftp pub/gnu/* from ugle.unit.no ftp pub/gnu/* from isy.liu.se ftp pub/gnu/* from ftp.stacken.kth.se ftp pub/gnu/* from sunic.sunet.se [re-org'ed] ftp pub/gnu/* from ftp.win.tue.nl ftp pub/gnu/* from ftp.diku.dk ftp software/gnu/* from ftp.eunet.ch ftp gnu/* from archive.eu.net [re-org'ed] restriction: Most GNU programs are CopyLeft'ed. That means that they are distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License or GNU Library General Public License. The CopyLeft is only a concern if you want to use actual GNU code in your program. Using Gcc or any of the other tools is completely safe from a copyright point-of-view with the sole exception of bison which includes GNU code in its output. If you use a GNU library, you must supply an unlinked version of your program. language: lisp package: MIT AI Lab archives description: archive of lisp extensions, utilities, and libraries location: ftp pub/* from ftp.ai.mit.edu contact: ? language: lisp package: Lisp Utilities collection location: ftp /afs/cs.cmu.edu/user/mkant/Public/Lisp from ftp.cs.cmu.edu contact: cl-utilities-request@cs.cmu.edu language: Scheme package: The Scheme Repository description: an archive of scheme material including a bibliography, the R4RS report, sample code, utilities, and implementations. location: ftp pub/scheme/* from nexus.yorku.ca contact: Ozan S. Yigit language: Smalltalk package: Manchester Smalltalk Goodies Library description: a large collection of libraries for smalltalk. Created by Alan Wills, administered by Mario Wolczko. location: ftp uiuc/st*/* from st.cs.uiuc.edu uk: ftp uiuc/st*/* from mushroom.cs.man.ac.uk contact: goodies-lib@cs.man.ac.uk language: Tcl package: Tcl/Tk Contrib Archive description: An archive of Tcl/tk things. location: ftp tcl/* from barkley.berkeley.edu contact: Jack Hsu