Kathleen Fisher et al. did some exciting PL oriented research on automatic tool generation for ad hoc, semi structured data in AT&T research a while ago. Take a

Kathleen Fisher et al. did some exciting PL oriented research on automatic tool generation for ad hoc, semi structured data in AT&T research a while ago. Take a look at their TOPLAS and POPL papers: The next 700 data description languages: http://www.padsproj.org/papers/ddcjournal_preprint.pdf http://www.padsproj.org/papers/ddcjournal_preprint.pdf From Dirt to Shovels, Fully Automatic Tool Generation from Ad Hoc Data: http://www.padsproj.org/papers/popl08.pdf http://www.padsproj.org/papers/popl08.pdf The website for the project is: http://www.padsproj.org/ http://www.padsproj.org/