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  • From: "Seyed H. HAERI (Hossein)" <hossein.haeri AT gmail.com>
  • To: "k-user AT cs.uiuc.edu" <k-user AT cs.uiuc.edu>
  • Subject: Re: [K-user] Origin of "Language Definitional Frameworks"
  • Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2014 21:38:59 +0100
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OK Grigore. That was prompt and generous. Thanks. :)

On 22 January 2014 21:24, Rosu, Grigore
<grosu AT illinois.edu>
wrote:
> Hossein,
>
> I would be embarrassed to be given credit for such an obvious term. My PhD
> adviser, Joseph Goguen, used it as part of his active vocabulary in
> meetings, and so did other people he talked to. Probably people just used
> it since the beginning of forever, so you can just use it, too, without
> worrying about giving credit to anybody. Somehow similar to "case study",
> "proof of concept", "proof engineering", etc.
>
> Grigore
>
>
>
> ________________________________________
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>
> [k-user-bounces AT cs.uiuc.edu]
> on behalf of Seyed H. HAERI (Hossein)
> [hossein.haeri AT gmail.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, January 22, 2014 2:01 PM
> To:
> k-user AT cs.uiuc.edu
> Subject: [K-user] Origin of "Language Definitional Frameworks"
>
> Dear all,
>
> Does anyone know where the term "Language Definitional Framework" was
> first coined? I seem to be able to track it as far as the following TR
> by Feng, Mark, and Grigore: "A Rewrite Logic Approach to Semantic
> Definition, Design and Analysis of Object-Oriented Languages." Am I
> right? Or, is there a more precise source?
>
> TIA,
> --Hossein
>
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>
> Seyed H. HAERI (Hossein)
>
> Research Assistant
> Institute for Software Systems (STS)
> Technical University of Hamburg (TUHH)
> Hamburg, Germany
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Seyed H. HAERI (Hossein)

Research Assistant
Institute for Software Systems (STS)
Technical University of Hamburg (TUHH)
Hamburg, Germany

ACCU - Professionalism in programming - http://www.accu.org/
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