Re: Re: software design clarification

Markus Elfring wrote:
> 
>> Are you asking about the development process or the resulting design &
>> implementation?
>>   
> 
> Both. Can UML drawings show the open design details that are general to
> our discussion?

Not much, I believe. If you have something concerning the Synopsis
'design details' that you want to discuss using UML, by all means, go ahead.
I'm not afraid of pretty pictures. :-)

> How do you think about consider interesting relationships without the
> selected programming languages?

I think this is the wrong question. (I may be misunderstanding your meaning
of 'selected programming languages', though.) We are talking about a C++
compiler frontend, and the questions are all very much algorithmic by nature.
So what are those 'interesting relationships' you'd like to consider by
abstracting away a concrete programming language ?

>>> Are the interfaces "XQuery" or "QVT" on your wish list in this context?
>>>     
>>
>> No.
> 
> I imagine that there are approaches where we can benefit from XML queries.
> - Superx++
> - o:XML
> - srcML
> - GCC XML Node Introspector
> - GXL: Paper "Towards a Standard Schema for C/C++"

I didn't say XQuery or QVT are useless. I said they are not on my wishlist.
If you want to work on anything like this, and, hook it up to Synopsis, you
are very welcome !

(However, I can't resist pointing out that I very strongly believe XML to be
the wrong tool for the job. See http://www.rdb.com/demo/XML/ for why.)


Regards,
		Stefan

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