A C++ framework for developing medical logic modules and an Arden Syntax compiler

✍ Scribed by Ronald A. Kuhn; Roger S. Reider

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1994
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 707 KB
• Volume: 24
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0010-4825
• DOI: 10.1016/0010-4825(94)90003-5

✦ Synopsis

When developing a clinical decision support system that uses knowledge expressed in Arden Syntax, the availability of a robust means of translating Arden Syntax into an executable module becomes critical. This paper describes an approach where Arden Syntax is translated into an intermediate pseudo-Arden language that is in turn compiled and linked to create the executable module. The pseudo-Arden language is defined in C++ using speciafized class libraries and preprocessor macros. This approach provides an aiternat~v~ means of developing the code generator for an Arden Syntax compiler.