Re: Scaffold: Code Automation Paper (e.g. What I wish to implement)

[Mikoyan <miko2 pandora be>]

On Sun, 2003-11-02 at 08:10, John (J5) Palmieri wrote:
> Hey Mikoyan,
> 
> I am realy sorry for not writting back.  I have been busy with work, my
> cousin going off to work in Burma and other things.  Feel free to e-mail
> me and kick me in the ass to get me motivated more :-)  

Ok, that's what I've just done :-) I mailed you privatly.

> I'm dedicating a
> week of vacation in December to hard core hacking on Scaffold but then
> again the Holidays might get in the way.  Right now I am struggling to
> relearn lex and yacc.  Not realy my strong suit.  I have a basic C
> parser compiling but it chokes on real code because the macros arn't
> being parsed because most C grammer assumes they have been preprocessed
> already.  This is the boring work for me.  I much rather be working on
> the the database and higher level stuff like cross referencing and code
> generation.  One step at a time.  Anyway, any input you can give would
> be great.  We can keep the conversation on the list or go on IRC at some
> point so others in the community can jump in and make suggestions or
> help out.  Write back with your ideas.
> 
> --
> J5
> 
> On Sun, 2003-10-12 at 09:08, Mikoyan wrote:
> > Hi John,
> > 
> > sorry for the late answer but it was an off-week schoolwise :-)
> > 
> > On Tue, 2003-10-07 at 03:41, John (J5) Palmieri wrote:
> > 
> > > > As you might expect, I'm *very* interested in what you are doing
> > > > and would like to talk more about this subject.
> > > 
> > > That would be great.  It looks we are thinking on similar pages.
> > 
> > I'm looking forward to exchange some ideas. I'll probably mail you
> > within in a few days with some things I would like to discuss, if that's
> > allright for you ...
> > 
> > Tomorrow I'll see my Thesis Promoter to flesh out some details so I hope
> > I can start working on it...
> > 
> > > > I must admit I only read your paper very shallow (if that is correct
> > > > english :)), but I was very impatient to reply... 
> > > 
> > > My paper is only very shallow right now ;-)  I wrote it to flesh out my
> > > ideas and get some comments and perhaps help.  Now that I have a
> > > direction to go in I'm going to start coding though I would very much
> > > like to get your input.
> > 
> > Well I have not much to say except it's all looking good :-) The only
> > thing I missed was some wise words related to refactoring, although
> > that's probably part of what you call "natural flow development". 
> > 
> > Refactoring is an essential part of a modern software engeneering
> > tool suite and is often very diffucult to achieve. And certainly with
> > Glib-C ... There are probably some solutions to it, and it is actually,
> > amongst other this, something I would like to discuss :-)
> > 
> > Btw, I hope I'll be able to help with your project, this is something
> > that really interests me (hence the choise of my thesis subject :))
> > 
> > Regards,
> > 
> > 	Mikoyan
> > 
> > 
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