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# Silver | ||
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Silver is an attribute grammar-based language for the modular development of composable language extensions. | ||
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See [About Silver](#about-silver) below for more info. | ||
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See [The Silver Install Guide](http://melt.cs.umn.edu/silver/install-guide) for detailed information on how to get Silver set up. | ||
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## Prerequisites | ||
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Silver requires: Java 7+, Ant, Bash, and wget. It can run on Linux, MacOS, and Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) in Windows 10. | ||
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Silver is written in Silver, which means after checkout, you need initial jars. You can download these with a helpful script: | ||
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``` | ||
./update | ||
``` | ||
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This will `git pull` to update, download jars, and clear any files generated by older versions of Silver. | ||
A one-stop-shop for updating after the initial clone. | ||
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# About Silver | ||
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Silver is an extensible attribute grammar system that support many | ||
modern extensions to Knuth's original design. These include | ||
higher-order attributes, reference attributes, forwarding, aspects, | ||
and collections attributes. Its type system support parametric | ||
polymorphism. Silver is distributed with Copper, a parser and | ||
context-aware scanner generator. | ||
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Please note that Silver is a research project and while we do endeavor | ||
to create useful and quality software there may be bugs and missing | ||
functionality. Consult with us if you wish to use Silver for | ||
"serious" work. We otherwise make no guarantees about the features or | ||
performance of Silver. | ||
It is designed for the modular development of composable language | ||
extensions, with language features and analyses to support this. | ||
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## Using silver | ||
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Silver requires Java 8, Ant, Bash, and wget. It can run on Linux, MacOS, and Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) in Windows 10. | ||
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See [The Silver Install Guide](http://melt.cs.umn.edu/silver/install-guide) | ||
for detailed information on how to get Silver set up. | ||
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* Ted Kaminski (tedinski@cs.umn.edu) | ||
Silver is written in Silver, which means after cloning the GitHub | ||
repository you still need the executable Java jar files. You can download | ||
these by running the ``update`` script in this repository. This will do a | ||
`git pull` to update, then download jars, and clear any files generated | ||
by older versions of Silver. A one-stop-shop for updating after the | ||
initial clone. | ||
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## Authors and contributors | ||
Silver is currently developed and maintained by | ||
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* Lucas Kramer (krame505@umn.edu) | ||
* Eric Van Wyk (evw@cs.umn.edu) | ||
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Minnesota Extensible Language Tools (MELT) Group | ||
Department of Computer Science and Engineering | ||
University of Minnesota | ||
http://melt.cs.umn.edu | ||
Past contributors include Ted Kaminski (tedinski@cs.umn.edu), Derek Bodin, Lijesh Krishnan, and Jimin Gao. | ||
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It is developed by the Minnesota Extensible Language Tools (MELT) Group | ||
(http://melt.cs.umn.edu) at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering (https://cs.umn.edu) at the University of Minnesota (https://umn.edu). | ||
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## The Silver web site | ||
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Downloads, documentation, and related papers are available on the | ||
Silver web site: | ||
## Websites and repositories | ||
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http://melt.cs.umn.edu/silver | ||
Software downloads, documentation, and related papers are available on the | ||
Melt group web site at http://melt.cs.umn.edu/. | ||
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Information about Copper and sample language frameworks developed with | ||
Silver can be found on the MELT Group web site: | ||
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Silver can be found on the MELT Group web site at | ||
http://melt.cs.umn.edu | ||
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Actively-developed versions of this software are available on GitHub at | ||
https://github.com/melt-umn/silver. | ||
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## Acknowledgements | ||
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Silver is currently developed and maintained by | ||
Archival versions of this software are permanently available on the Data | ||
Repository of the University of Minnesota at https://doi.org/10.13020/D6QX07. | ||
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* Ted Kaminski (tedinski@cs.umn.edu) | ||
* Lucas Kramer (krame505@cs.umn.edu) | ||
* Eric Van Wyk (evw@cs.umn.edu) | ||
Other software and artifacts are also archived there and can be | ||
reached from this persistent link: http://hdl.handle.net/11299/206558. | ||
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Past contributors include Derek Bodin, Lijesh Krishnan, and Jimin Gao. | ||
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## Acknowledgements | ||
We are very grateful to the National Science Foundation, the McKnight | ||
Foundation, DARPA, the University of Minnesota, and IBM for funding | ||
different aspects of our research and the development of Silver and | ||
Copper. | ||
Copper. | ||
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## Licensing | ||
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Silver and Copper are distributed under the GNU Lesser General Public | ||
License. See the files COPYING and COPYING.LESSER for details of | ||
these licenses. More information can be found at | ||
http://www.gnu.org/licenses/. | ||
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