An editor that is aware of the syntactic, semantic and in some
cases the structural rules of a specific programming language
and provides a framework for the user to enter source code.
Programs or changes to previously stored programs are
incrementally parsed into an abstract syntax tree and
automatically checked for correctness.
(1995-02-15)
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