Application Executive

language (AE) An embeddable language, written as a C

interpreter by Brian Bliss at UIUC. AE is compiled with an

application and thus exists in the same process and address

space. It includes a dbx symbol table scanner to access

compiled variables and routines, or you can enter them

manually by providing a type/name declaration and the address.

When the interpreter is invoked, source code fragments are

read from the input stream (or a string), parsed, and

evaluated immediately. The user can call compiled functions

in addition to a few built-in intrinsics, declare new data

types and data objects, etc. Different input streams can be

evaluated in parallel on Alliant computers.

AE has been ported to SunOS (cc or gcc), Alliant FX and

Cray YMP (soon).

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(1992-04-21)