BIB-VERSION:: CS-TR-v2.0
          ID:: STAN//CS-TR-87-1159
       ENTRY:: April 24, 1995
ORGANIZATION:: Stanford University, Department of Computer Science
       TITLE:: Muir: A Tool for Language Design
        TYPE:: Technical Report
      AUTHOR:: Winograd, Terry A.
        DATE:: May 1987
       PAGES:: 32
    ABSTRACT:: Muir is a language design environment, intended for use in
               creating and experimenting with languages such as programming
               languages, specification languages, grammar forrnalisms, and
               logical notations. It provides facilities for a language
               designer to create a language specification, which controls
               the behavior of generic language manipulating tools typically
               found in a language-specific environment, such as structure
               editors, interactive interfaces, storage management and
               attribute analysis. It is oriented towards use with evolving
               languages, providing for mixed structures (combining
               different versions), semi-automated updating of structures
               from one language version to another, and incremental
               language specification. A new hierarchical grammar formalism
               serves as the framework for language specification, with
               multiple presentation formalisms and a unified interactive
               environment based on an extended notion of edit operations. A
               prototype version is operating and has been tested on a small
               number of languages.
       NOTES:: [Adminitrivia V1/Prg/19950424]
         END:: STAN//CS-TR-87-1159