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Diana past, present, and future

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DIANA is an intermediate representation of Ada programs that contains all the information of the source program along with the results of lexical, syntactic and static semantic analysis. DIANA is an abstract data type that does not imply any representation so DIANA does not constrain an implementation. While DIANA is not the only possible internal representation it is a generally useful one.

DIANA will continue to be a valuable interface for tools. Programming environments that support a DIANA interface will be able to add new tools easily and upgrade existing tools that use DIANA as their interface. DIANA is the first step towards an environment of ‘plug compatible’ tools.

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  1. Tartan Laboratories Incorporated, 477 Melwood Avenue, 15213, Pittsburgh, PA, U.S.A.

    Kenneth J. Butler

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Peter J. L. Wallis

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Butler, K.J. (1984). Diana past, present, and future. In: Wallis, P.J.L. (eds) Ada Software Tools Interfaces. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 180. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-13878-1_2

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