See also the
WebChanges page.
2010-05-28
Version 0.5 of the
Spoofax Language Workbench has been released. Please read the announcement on the main page.
2010-05-26
The paper
The Spoofax Language Workbench. Rules for Declarative Specification of Languages and IDEs by Lennart Kats and Eelco Visser has been accepted for presentation at
OOPSLA/SPLASH 2010. The paper presents the
Spoofax language workbench for development of Eclipse IDEs with
SDF and Stratego as language definition formalisms.
2009-12-30
A bibliograpy with Stratego/XT related publications is now available from
researchr
2009-07-27
Following the
Stratego/XT 0.17 release, we have released some minor updates on some
extension packages.
2009-07-08
Stratego/XT 0.17 has been released. This release introduces major improvements across the board, including language additions, a new compiler library, numerous improvements to the compiler, significant changes to the library handling, new libraries for parsing, pretty printing and term validation, 64-bit support, stack traces and more.
2009-04-06
Postdoc position available in the
MoDSE project.
2008-12-12
The paper
Decorated Attribute Grammars by Lennart Kats, Tony Sloane and Eelco Visser has been accepted for presentation at the
International Conference on Compiler Construction (CC 2009) to be held in March 2009 in York (UK). The paper introduces
Aster, an extension of Stratego with reference attribute grammars and attribute traversals based on Stratego's traversal operators.
2008-03-31
The paper
"
Code Generation by Model Transformation. A Case Study in Transformation Modularity"
by Zef Hemel, Lennart Kats, and Eelco Visser
has been accepted for presentation at the
International Conference on Model Transformation (ICMT'08)
2008-02-15
The Stratego/XT site has been moved to a server at Delft University. The
strategoxt.org domain is now the canonical domain for the website. The old
www.stratego-language.org domain is forwarded there and will remain available.
2008-01-08
stratego-language.org is back online after absence for a day, while the DNS server for the domain was changed. This is in preparation for a migration to a new server at Delft University of Technology, where the site will be hosted in the future. The site will also be converted to a new wiki implementation in
WebDSL.
2007-12-20
First release of
WebDSL at
webdsl.org.
2007-06-20
Paper:
Domain-Specific Language Engineering presents a case study in designing and implementing
WebDSL, a DSL for building web applications with a rich domain model. Tutorial paper for the
GTTSE'07 summerschool.
2007-03-29
Publication list of Stratego/XT project and applications is up-to-date again.
Please help us keep it so by sending us bibtex entries for your publications related to Stratego/XT.
2007-02-11
Blog:
Stratego (back) in Portland
2007-01-24
Hardware for a new buildfarm has arrived at Delft University.
2006-11-14 Preliminary program for
Seventh Stratego User Days available.
2006-09-14 There is enough interest to organize the
Seventh Stratego User Days in November in Delft. Get
in touch if you want to participate.
2006-08-30 Will the
Seventh Stratego User Days be held in 2006? It depends on
you.
2006-06-30 The
Jacquard program of NWO and EZ has granted the
Model-Driven Software Evolution project, funding an assistant professor, a postdoc, and two PhD students. The project will support further work on implementation techniques for domain-specific languages in the spirit of
MetaBorg.
2006-06-22 Stratego Central is moving. Eelco Visser accepts associate professorship at
Delft University of Technology. Work on further development of Stratego and applications will continue there supported by several research grants.
2006-06-06 Eric Bouwers is going to implement a PHP static analysis tool based on Stratego/XT and sponsored by
Google's Summer of Code. You can read about the developments at his
blog.
2006-06-05 Announced support for Mac/Intel machines in the the latest unstable releases, including an installer.
2006-02-28 NWO grants the
Transformations for Abstractions project funding a postdoc for three years.
2005-11-04 The first
Stratego/XT Manual has been released with tutorial, examples, and reference material.
2005-11-04 Stratego/XT 0.16 has been released. This release introduces a major refactoring of the Stratego Language and compiler. Furthermore, many outstanding issues have been addressed, and we have a manual!
2005-11-04 Stratego Shell 0.6 has been released. This release features a major reimplementation of the interpreter and compatability with the Stratego Core language introduced in
Stratego/XT 0.16.
2005-11-04 BibTex Tools 0.2 is the first official release of the Stratego/XT
BibTeX Tools package, which provides components for processing BibTeX files, mainly for producing publication lists.
2005-11-04 Java-front 0.8 has been released. This is a major update, fixing some usability issues in parse-java, improving the support for compilation the command-line, and fixes in the pretty-printer.
2005-08-31 Stratego/XT 0.16M1 has been released. This releases features a redesign of the Stratego compiler, e.g. a new compilation scheme which should give a huge performance boost on Mac OS X machines.
2005-07-21 Update of the
publication page with all the papers and theses that appeared in 2005 so far.
2005-07-05 Stratego/XT 0.15 is now available. It is an experimental release featuring a major refactoring of the internal representation of Stratego and the Stratego compiler.
2005-05-24 Java-front 0.7 is now available. A few minor bugs in the syntax definition have been fixed and hexadecimal floating-point literals are now supported.
2005-05-20 Stratego Shell 0.5 is now available. This release fixes various bugs and supports
Stratego/XT 0.14.
2005-05-09 The RSS feed of the Stratego/XT Wiki has been fixed and is now
valid RSS.
2005-05-09 Stratego/XT 0.14 has been released. This releases features wildcard imports in Stratego, the hierarchical Stratego library, the introduction of pkg-config and various bug-fixes and new features of the Stratego compiler and the transformation tools of Stratego/XT. See the release page for more details.
2005-03-27
Paper: '
Combining Aspect-Oriented and Strategic Programming' introduces and explains an extension to the Stratego language for dealing with cross-cutting, separate concerns, called
AspectStratego.
2005-03-02
Paper revision: '
Program Transformation With Scoped Dynamic Rewrite Rules'
2005-01-14
Stratego Shell 0.4, the first offical release, is now available! The
Stratego Shell implements a Stratego interpreter and an interactive shell for Stratego programming. The interpreter and shell are very useful for learning Stratego and for implementing small tests.
2005-01-14
Java-front 0.6 has been released. This release improves the embedding of Java in Stratego.
2005-01-13
Stratego/XT 0.13 has been released. This releases features the implementation of
dependent dynamic rewrite rules and various bug-fixes and new features of the Stratego compiler and the transformation tools of Stratego/XT. See the release page for more details.
2004-12-12
Paper: '
Composing Source-to-Source Data-Flow Transformations with Rewriting Strategies and Dependent Dynamic Rewrite Rules' introduces the concept of
dependent dynamic rewrite rules, for modeling the dependencies of data-flow facts on program entitities such as variables.
2004-12-02
Paper: '
Program Transformation With Scoped Dynamic Rewrite Rules' describes the new
design of dynamic rewrite rules including scope labels, extended dynamic rules, and
union and intersection of rulesets.
2004-11-24
Builds of Stratego/XT and extension packages is now done
continuously using a
Nix build farm.
Source and binary distributions are available only hours after committing a change.
2004-10-04
Java-front 0.5 has been released. Java-front adds support for Java program transformation to StrategoXT. It provides a handcrafted
SDF syntax definition and pretty-printer for Java (J2SE 5.0).
2004-10-04
StrategoXT 0.12 has been released. This releases improves the usability of several tools and extends the support for XML exchange. Also, the error reporting of format-check has improved drastically.
2004-08-23
Thesis:
Arthur van Dam's thesis on '
Extending Dynamic Rules' describes the new design of dynamic rules by means of several case studies.
2004-08-20
First release (0.1) of
bibtex-tools package for processing
BibTeX bibliography files. Main feature is the bib-to-html conversion that is parameterized with templates for selection and presentation of bibliographies.
2004-07-16
StrategoXT 0.11 has been released. This release fully supports separate compilation, Mac OS X, Cygwin and it provides new tools for XML processing.
2004-05-10
StrategoXT 0.10 has been released. This release features a major redesign of scoped dynamic
rewrite rules, and an update of the XT tools.
2004-05-08
Paper: '
Concrete syntax for objects' describes the
MetaBorg approach to embedding and assimilation of
domain-specific languages in a host language illustrated with several extensions of Java. (Accepted for
OOPSLA'04.)
2004-03-30
Issue tracking for Stratego/XT and related projects is now done with
JIRA.
2004-03-26
StrategoXT-0.9.5 is now available. This release fixes many bugs and usability issues in StrategoXT tools. Many tools in StrategoXT have been updated and improved.
2004-03-26
Thesis:
XDoc An extensible documentation generator by
Rob Vermaas.
2004-03-22
Pictures from the
Fifth Stratego User Days
2004-03-19
Domain:
http://www.metaborg.org
2004-03-12
Paper:
A survey of strategies in rule based program transformation systems
2004-03-12
Slides from talks at the
Fifth Stratego User Days.
2004-01-27
The URLs
http://strategoxt.org and
http://stratego.org now point to the Stratego website.
2004-01-22
StrategoXT-0.9.4 is now available. This release drastically reduces the memory usage at some operating systems and includes preliminary implementations of separate compilation, user-definable desugarings and dynamic rule sets.
2003-11-25
Paper: '
Retrofitting the AutoBayes Program Synthesis System with Concrete Syntax' describes
the use of
concrete syntax in Prolog (
PrologTools).
2003-11-10
Paper: a revision of '
Program Transformation with Stratego/XT' now also discusses term annotations and foreign functions.
2003-11-06
Logo:
Niels Janssen redesigned the
Stratego Logo:
2003-10-23
Application: The
bibtex-tools package provides a syntax definition and utilities for
BibTeX (to automatically produce publication lists).
2003-09-19
Additional package download provides source and binary distributions of
several utility or application packages for
StrategoXT.
2003-09-01
StrategoXT-0.9.3 is now available. The compiler has been
refactored and the optimizer extended with many new optimizations.
2003-08-23
Development: The
Stratego optimizer has been extended with many new optimizations, reducing
size of generated code and improving its performance.
2003-08-22
Brochure: '
Stratego/XT: Components for Program Transformation Systems' gives a summary in two pages.
2003-08-04
Language extension: Strategy operators can have
term arguments in addition to strategy arguments.
Native primitives can now also have strategy arguments.
2003-07-23
Thesis: '
Code Generation From a Domain Specific Language' examines code generation
techniques in Stratego and other languages and arrives at an idiom of
template based code generation in Stratego
2003-07-09
Thesis: '
Simplifying the Simplifier' describes the design and implementation of an extensible optimizer for the Helium compiler.
2003-07-04
StrategoXT-0.9.2 is now available. This is a logistics release smoothening the build process in order to automatically build binary distributions for various platforms.
2003-06-17
Paper: '
Program Transformation with Stratego/XT' gives overview of language and tools.
Paper: '
Design of the CodeBoost Transformation System' presents a system for domain-specific transformation of numeric programs.
Paper: '
Turning Dynamic Typing into Static Typing by Program Specialization' explains type analysis in
Octave Compiler?.
2003-06-15
Development:
StrategoShell is an experimental interactive shell for executing Stratego commands.
2003-06-06
StrategoXT-0.9.1 has been released.
Slides of the
Fourth Stratego Users Day are available.
2003-05-02
The
Fourth Stratego Users Day will be held on June 5, 2003. Register now.
2003-05-01
Paper: '
Transformation Mechanics' surveys mechanisms for program transformation and support in existing systems.
2003-01-26
StrategoXT-0.9 has been released.
2003-01-11
ReferenceCard gives a comprehensive overview of the tools in the
StrategoXT distribution
2003-01-03
XtDailyBuild? is a portable daily build system for performing continuous daily builds of
StrategoXT and related projects.
2003-01-02
StrategoRelease09 (beta8) improves
dynamic rule semantics and polishes
XTC and
AutoXT.
2002-12-13
AutoXT provides autoconf/make support for building transformation systems with
StrategoXT.
XTC is a framework for
transformation tool composition.
AutoXT and
XTC are included in
StrategoRelease09 (beta7).
XtApplet (0.3) illustrates use of Stratego.
2002-11-15
Fusion of Stratego and XT:
StrategoRelease09 integrates the distributions of Stratego and XT. A first beta release is now available.
2002-11-13
The Stratego
MailingLists are now supported by better software that should eliminate spam to the lists.
2002-10-29
The paper '
Strategies For Source to Source Constant Propagation' illustrates the use of dynamic rules in the specification of data-flow optimizations.
2002-10-15
New version of the paper '
The Essence of Strategic Programming'. Describes the essential ideas underlying the idiom of strategic programming and discusses several realizations.
2002-09-18
A new version (1.0) of the
Tiger Compiler illustrates the use of
Meta Programming with Concrete Object Syntax. Furthermore, the
distribution of the compiler now contains the sources of all components. The
Tiger in Stratego project is a good starting point for learning Stratego and XT.
2002-07-27
StrategoRelease08 extends Stratego with support for
meta programming with concrete object syntax.
2002-06-30
The paper '
Meta Programming with Concrete Object Syntax' explains how Stratego specifications can be written using the concrete syntax of the object language that is transformed.
2002-05-09
The paper '
Rewriting Strategies for Instruction Selection' shows how various approaches to instruction selection can all be expressed in the framework of rewriting strategies.
2002-05-05
The
ThirdSudReport reports about the
ThirdStrategoUsersDay including links to the slides and pictures.
2002-04-21
The handouts of the
Stratego Tutorial at ETAPS are available from the
StrategoDocumentation page.
2002-03-13
StrategoRelease07 is now available from
StrategoDownload.
2002-03-05
New paper:
The Essence of Strategic Programming. Describes the essential ideas underlying the idiom of strategic programming and illustrates these notions in several realizations including Stratego.
The
EBNF package is an
XtApplet demonstrating the use of strategies in grammar transformations.
2002-02-19
The
Third Stratego Users Day will be held at Utrecht University on Friday, May 3, 2002. Send in
talk proposals now!
2002-02-14
The paper
Building Interpreters with Rewriting Strategies has been accepted for publication at
LDTA. It describes the composition of an interpreter from a set of semantic rewrite rules
using a strategy.
2002-01-25
If you have trouble finding your way in the XT forest of tools, then you can get started with
XtApplet, a small package illustrating everything you need to set up a basic parse, transform, and pretty-print pipeline.
2002-01-25
StrategoApplication of the month:
AutoBundle is a nice example of a
StrategoApplication. The tool creates software distribution bundles from package descriptions by analyzing depencencies between packages. The tool also generates a webpage from a collection of package descriptions and
computes pictures of dependency graphs on demand. You can see
AutoBundle at work in the
OnlinePackageBase
2002-01-16
StrategoRelease07 (beta1) introduces the
GlobalBacktracking? operators
++
and
<++
, as well
as
ConstantTermCaching.
2002-01-06
On Sunday, April 14, 2002, at
ETAPS'02 there will be a full day tutorial about Stratego. See
StrategoTutorialAtETAPS.
2002-01-03
StrategoRelease064 fixes translation of
StrategyRules.
2001-12-09
The proceedings of the
SecondStrategoUsersDay are now (finally) available.
2001-12-07
The
OnlinePackageBase now generates package depence graphs dynamically for
all separate packages (by clicking the i symbol). This is done using a cgi script
that calls a bunch of XT tools:
${AUTOBUNDLE}/bin/bundlegen -I ${pkgdir} -p ${pkg} -g
| GraphXML2dot
| pp -l dot -a
| ${GV}/bin/dot -Tgif -Gbgcolor=white
These are all implemented in Stratego of course. (See also
AutoBundle) --
MerijnDeJonge - 07 Dec 2001
2001-12-06
TigerInStratego? is an implementation of a compiler and other transformations for the
TigerLanguage? of
AndrewAppel.
The sources of the compiler provide a good example of Stratego programming
and are a good starting point for learning to use Stratego
together with the
CourseSlides? from the
Software Generation? course.
The documentation of the project is in the
Hpc? web that is also used for the course on High-Performance Compilers that I teach at Utrecht University.
--
EelcoVisser - 06 Dec 2001
2001-11-22
The categories
CategoryBugs?,
CategorySolvedBugs?,
CategoryToDo?, and
CategoryDone? provide a more systematic way for tracing bugs and desirable extensions. If you encounter a bug please check the
StrategoBugs? page to see if it is a known bug. Create a new bug topic on that page and add
CategoryBugs? at the bottom.
You can stay up to date with developments in the Stratego web by putting your name on the
WebNotify page.
2001-11-21
TermWrap and
TermProject are two generalizations of strategy applications in build and match patterns. They will be available in
StrategoRelease063.
2001-10-27
There is a proposal to hold another
ThirdStrategoUsersDay. Please indicate whether you would be interested in attending and presenting something.
2001-10-26
The annotated bibliography of Stratego at
http://www.stratego-language.org/publications provides some 35 references to papers about design, implementation and application of Stratego and the implementation of strategic programming in other languages.
The CVS repository for the Stratego system is back online. See
StrategoCVS? for instructions for downloading the latest changes.
2001-10-01
StrategoRelease062 fixes a bug in the compilation of overlays.
2001-09-22
StrategoRelease061 is now available from
StrategoDownload.
2001-08-29
StrategoRelease06 is now available from
StrategoDownload. A new implementation scheme, much faster code, and faster compilation.
2001-08-22
A pre-release of Stratego 0.6 is now available at
StrategoRelease06. The compiler uses a new translation scheme and is much faster than previous versions. Generated code is also faster than before.
2001-03-29
KarlTrygveKalleberg complained about the
StrategoDocumentation. I propose to improve the situation by developing documentation on this wiki such that users can directly respond with comments, examples, better explanations etc. See
StrategoTutorial?,
FrequentlyAskedQuestions,
StrategoGlossary,
CommonErrors?. --
EelcoVisser - 29 Mar 2001
2001-03-29
StrategoRelease051 is available.
2001-03-26
Version 0.5 of the Stratego distribution is available from
StrategoDownload. See
StrategoRelease05 for an overview of changes in this release.
2001-03-13
A complete bibliography for
StrategoLanguage in
BibTeX format is now available from the
StrategoPublications page.
2001-03-09
The web site has been migrated to twiki. All pages of the site are now under twiki and can be edited by registered users. New pages include the
ToDo page with a long list of ideas for improvement of the language and the system.
2001-03-01
A paper about the optimization of the innermost strategy is now available from
the
StrategoPublications page.
2001-02-27
A short system description of Stratego (version 0.5) has been accepted for publication at
RTA'01. A description of XT has been accepted at
LDTA'01. See the
StrategoPublications page. (Version 0.5 introduces
StrategoScript?. It will be released soon.)
2001-02-25
The Stratego documentation is now also available online. See the
StrategoDocumentation page. The HTML versions were produced with the
LaTeX? to HTML translator
HeVeA?.
2001-01-20
Release 0.4.22 is now available.
2001-01-12
The preliminary program for the Second Stratego Users Day is now available.
2000-12-21
The
SecondStrategoUsersDay will be held on February 8, 2001 at Utrecht University. A full day tutorial on Stratego will be held the day before on February 7.
2000-11-06
Release 0.4.21 is now available.
2000-10-29
OttoSkroveBagge created a Debian distribution package for Stratego and the ATerm Library. See the
MirrorDistributions? page for more information.
2000-10-27
Release 0.4.20 is now available.
2000-10-18
Release 0.4.19 is now available.
2000-09-05
On the
HighPerformanceCompilersCourse? page I am collecting information about learning to program in Stratego using Appel's Tiger language as example.
2000-08-23
The final version of
WarmFusionInStratego paper is available. The first version of the implementation of the
WarmFusionTransformation is distributed in the
HSX package.
2000-08-22
But a long outage due to server breakdown combined with vacation shows the vulnerability of wiki.
2000-06-30
Renewed the website basing it more on the stratego-wiki.