Software Language Engineering of

Abstract

Translational, that is by translating the mogram into another language that is well understood. In my view, the best way to describe semantics to an audience of computer scientists is either translational or operational. If you can find a good target language, then the translational approach is probably the best, and certainly the quickest. However, when you lack a good target language, the operational approach is second best. This is similar to programming languages, given the (E)BNF definitions of Cobol and Java it does not mean that a source to source translation from Cobol to Java is feasible due to semantic inconsistency. In order to be able to do the performance analysis, the behavioural UML models are translated into POOSL [30] models. However, it turned out that a straightforward translation was not feasible. Java interpreter Translation of the pre-model 2. Application of the transformation relation 3. Translation of the post-model