Descriptive Intermediate Attributed Notation for Ada


Descriptive Intermediate Attributed Notation for Ada

(language)(DIANA) A formerly de facto standardintermediate language for Ada programs, developed by Goosand Wulf at CMU in January 1981. DIANA is an attributed tree representation, with an abstract interface defined inInterface Description Language (Nestor, Lamb and Wulf, CMU,1981; Snodgrass(?), 1989(?)). DIANA resulted from a merger ofAIDA and TCOL.Ada. At the present (2001) it is no longerused by the major ADA compilers

["DIANA - An Intermediate Language for Ada", G.T. Goos et al,LNCS 161, Springer 1983].