Download or read book A Concise Extensible Metalanguage for Translator Implementation written by Douglas L. Michels and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A class of emitter augmented phrase structure grammars is defined which can specify simple translations of context free languages. A self-translating metatranslator for the description of these translation grammars is described. Several mutually recursive functions define an interpreter which will execute grammars as translated by this metatranslator. The evolution of more sophisticated translations systems is discussed and extensions to the metatranslator and interpreter are demonstrated. A very concise self-describing metalanguage and an interpreter which will directly execute its self-description are presented. (Author).