RE: Modelica Conference 2002

On Wed, 6 Feb 2002, Tiller, Michael (M.M.) wrote:

>   Yes, Peter Fritzson's group at Linkoeping are initiating an open
>   source project.  I do not know the details of what will be
>   included in the project but my hope is that at least a parser
>   framework will be included.  I do not expect to see a free
>   simulator come out of that project (at least not in the near
>   term).  My guess is that you are really interested in a simulator,
>   correct?  

A simulator indeed, but more than that: code that can be used on-line
in a real system. 

> I'd like to see somebody implement some kind of basic
>   simulator as open source at some point but I think there are many
>   challenges since the Modelica specification provides features that
>   are not trivial to implement.
Such as? (I hope I will have a student soon to start such a
project...)

>   As I've pointed out many times, the Modelica language is a
>   non-proprietary specification and anybody is free to implement the
>   Modelica language.
That I understand :-) But I still sort of dislike its `feature' that
extra things (such as 3D object information) have to be given in
``comments''. And how good would Modelica be as a general controller
description language?

Herman