Syntax-Directed Documentation For PL 360

The language PL 360, together with its phrase structure grammar, is used as a 
concrete basis for illustrating an idea called syntax-directed documentation. 
This idea is (1) to use the phrase structure of a program to define the 
structure of a formal documentation for that program; (2) to use the syntactic 
types and identifiers in the resulting structure to trigger the automatic
formation of questions to the programmer, whose answers will
become part of that documentation; and (3) to provide automatic storage
and retrieval facilities so that other programmers who want
to understand or modify the program can access the resulting documentation,
which is cross-indexed in various ways by syntactic types
and objects.  A small PL 360 program, already found
in the literature, is worked out as an example.

CACM April, 1970

Mills, H. D.

documentation, syntax analysis, PL 360, enforced documentation,
indexed documentation, automatic interrogation,
phase structured grammar, syntax-directed documentation, syntax processing

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