Peter Harry Eidorff, Fritz Henglein, Christian Mossin, Henning Niss, Morten Heine S\orensen, Mads Tofte. AnnoDomini: From type theory to Year 2000 conversion tool. In POPL '99: Proceedings of the 26th ACM SIGPLAN-SIGACT symposium on Principles of programming languages, Pages 1-14, New York, NY, USA, January 1999.
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AnnoDomini is a source-to-source conversion tool for making COBOL programs Year 2000 compliant. It is technically and conceptually built upon type-theoretic techniques and methods: type-based specification, program analysis by type inference and type-directed transformation. These are combined into an integrated software reengineering tool and method for finding and fixing Year 2000 problems. AnnoDomini's primary goals have been \emph{flexibility} (support for multiple year representations), \emph{completeness} (identifying all potential Year 2000 problems), \emph{correctness} (correct fixes for Year 2000 problems) and a high degree of \emph{safe automation} in all phases (declarative specification of conversions, no second-guessing or dangerous heuristics). In this paper we present the type-theoretic foundations of AnnoDomini: type system, type inference, unification theory, semantic soundness, and correctness of conversion. We also describe how these foundations have been applied and extended to a common COBOL mainframe dialect, and how AnnoDomini is packaged with graphical user interface and syntax-sensitive editor into a commercially available software tool
Peter Harry Eidorff
Fritz Henglein
Christian Mossin
Henning Niss
M. H. S\orensen
Mads Tofte
@InProceedings{ehmnst99,
Author = {Eidorff, Peter Harry and Henglein, Fritz and Mossin, Christian and Niss, Henning and S\orensen, Morten Heine and Tofte, Mads},
Title = {AnnoDomini: From type theory to Year 2000 conversion tool},
BookTitle = {POPL '99: Proceedings of the 26th ACM SIGPLAN-SIGACT symposium on Principles of programming languages},
Pages = {1--14},
Publisher = {ACM},
Address = {New York, NY, USA},
Month = {January},
Year = {1999}
}
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