RPL, a BCPL-Based Production Language System
Keith A. Lantz, Clifford B Meltzer · UR Research (University of Rochester) · 1977
Preface: This report is intended to serve two purposes. First, it should provide the interested reader with what is thought to be a particularly elegant design for a production language. To this end, the Rochester Production Language is discussed, as far as possible, in implementation-independent terms. To provide the reader with a feel for the actual use of production language, salient points of the RPL Translator Writing System are also discussed; in particular, the interface to user-supplied BCPL semantic routines. The reader is expected to have a rudimentary knowledge of production language (suggested reading is [Gries]). Second, this report is meant to serve as a reference manual for the Rochester Production Language. It is not, however, a detailed user's guide to the RPL Translator Writing System [Lantz]....