XTRAN

XTRAN is our expert system for automating the manipulation of computer languages, data, and text. It marries compiler and expert system technologies to provide, via its rules language, automation of:

• Code assessment / analysis
• Code transformation / re-engineering, including modernization
• Code translation
• Code standardization
• Code generation
• Data analysis and manipulation
• Text analysis and manipulation

XTRAN is therefore a meta-tool -- a system for creating automation tools. XTRAN's powerful rules language provides an extremely productive environment in which to develop such tools. In this tool development environment, minor tasks can be automated in minutes or hours, significant tasks in days, and major tasks in weeks.

We have already created a number of automation tools for analyzing, translating, re-engineering, and generating computer languages, data, and text. Additional automation tools can be quickly created using XTRAN's rules language.

XTRAN can manipulate all of the following:

• Assemblers
• Third generation languages such as C, COBOL, Fortran, Pascal, and PL/I
• Fourth generation languages such as Software AG's Natural, RPG, and SAS
• Proprietary languages such as IBM's EDL and Norsk Data's NPL
• Markup languages such as HTML and XML
• Scripting languages
• Database languages such as SQL
• Special-purpose languages
• XTRAN's own rules language (meta-code)
• Any other parsable computer language
• Data (in text form)
• Text (documents etc.)

XTRAN was envisioned, designed, implemented, and documented by our President and founder, Stephen F. Heffner.

We also provide training and consulting services, especially in connection with the use of XTRAN.