Translating EXPRESS language model into C language model

Authors :: Wu Minghui
Zhuang Yue-ting
Pan Yun-he
Yu Chun-yan
Liu Nairuo
Source :: ACM SIGPLAN Notices. 38:30-39
Publication Year :: 2003
Publisher :: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), 2003.
Abstract: EXPRESS is a powerful object-oriented data model descriptive language and independent of any platform. However, it is a kind of descriptive language rather than a programming language. This brings difficulty to implement the EXPRESS data model on a computer and it also undoubtedly brings a big problem with the STEP data model processing so that we have to translate EXPRESS language model into a certain programming language model. In this paper, an approach is presented to translate the EXPRESS language model into the C language model. In addition, this paper proves the validity of this translation theoretically.