plingua

The P-Lingua language for Membrane Computing

P-Lingua is a comprehensive framework for membrane computing that provides a complete ecosystem for defining, parsing, simulating, and generating code for P-systems (membrane systems).

📚 Documentation

Comprehensive Architecture Documentation

Detailed architectural insights with Mermaid diagrams covering:

• System Architecture: High-level design patterns and data flows
• Component Deep Dive: Internal architecture of parser, simulator, and generator
• Usage Examples: Practical demonstrations and integration guides

Dependencies

• Linux OS (tested on Ubuntu 16.04 and Ubuntu 18.04)
• GCC 4.9.0 or higher (with support for regex)
• Flex
• Bison
• libboost-filesystem-dev
• libboost-program-options-dev

sudo apt-get install build-essential flex bison libboost-filesystem-dev libboost-program-options-dev

Compiling

• make grammar
• make compiler
• make simulator
• sudo make install

Architecture Overview

graph TD
    A[P-Lingua Source] --> B[Parser]
    B --> C[P-System Model]
    C --> D[Simulator]
    C --> E[Code Generator]
    D --> F[Results]
    E --> G[Generated Code]
    
    style A fill:#e3f2fd
    style C fill:#f3e5f5
    style F fill:#e8f5e8
    style G fill:#fff3e0

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The framework consists of three main components:

• Parser: Transforms P-Lingua source into executable models
• Simulator: Executes membrane computing simulations
• Generator: Produces optimized C++ implementations