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Raincode assembler compiler (tool demo)

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Volodymyr Blagodarov,

Vadim ZaytsevAuthors Info & Claims

SLE 2016: Proceedings of the 2016 ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Software Language Engineering

Pages 221 - 225

https://doi.org/10.1145/2997364.2997387

Published: 20 October 2016 Publication History

Abstract

IBM's High Level Assembler (HLASM) is a low level programming language for z/Architecture mainframe computers. Many legacy codebases contain large subsets written in HLASM for various reasons, and such components usually had to be manually rewritten in COBOL or PL/I before a migration to a modern framework could take place. Now, the Raincode ASM370 compiler for .NET supports HLASM syntax and emulates the data types and behaviour of the original language, allowing one to port, maintain and interactively debug legacy mainframe assembler code under .NET.

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Admiraal Cvan den Brink WGerhold MZaytsev VZubcu C(2024)Deriving modernity signatures of codebases with static analysisJournal of Systems and Software10.1016/j.jss.2024.111973211:COnline publication date: 2-Jul-2024
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1016/j.jss.2024.111973
Zaytsev VChurch LGabriel RHirschfeld RMasuhara H(2017)Open challenges in incremental coverage of legacy software languagesProceedings of the 3rd ACM SIGPLAN International Workshop on Programming Experience10.1145/3167105(1-6)Online publication date: 22-Oct-2017
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3167105

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Raincode assembler compiler (tool demo)
1. Software and its engineering
  1. Software notations and tools
    1. Compilers
    2. General programming languages
      1. Language types

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Admiraal Cvan den Brink WGerhold MZaytsev VZubcu C(2024)Deriving modernity signatures of codebases with static analysisJournal of Systems and Software10.1016/j.jss.2024.111973211:COnline publication date: 2-Jul-2024
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1016/j.jss.2024.111973
Zaytsev VChurch LGabriel RHirschfeld RMasuhara H(2017)Open challenges in incremental coverage of legacy software languagesProceedings of the 3rd ACM SIGPLAN International Workshop on Programming Experience10.1145/3167105(1-6)Online publication date: 22-Oct-2017
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3167105

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