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Tool Support for an Application-Specific Language

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This paper describes work being carried out collaboratively by GEC ALSTHOM Signalling Ltd, Westinghouse Signals Ltd, and the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology, with the support of DTI and SERC, under their Advanced Technology Programme Safety Critical Systems initiative. The work covers research into the design and checking process for data written in application-specific languages.

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Barnard, R.E.B. (1993). Tool Support for an Application-Specific Language. In: Redmill, F., Anderson, T. (eds) Directions in Safety-Critical Systems. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-2037-7_12

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