Thank you, Rich, for the idea.  And thanks to Tom, the idea is now up on
the project ideas page.

Sincerely,

Daniel


On Tue Mar 26 13:41 2013, Rich Morin wrote:
>   Category:  Tooling
> 
>   Name:  Program analysis suite, based on Rich Hickey's Codeq
> 
>   Brief explanation:
>   
>     Rich Hickey, inventor of Clojure and Datomic, created Codeq as a
>     prototype framework for program analysis.  It harvests multiple
>     information sources (eg, Git metadata, source code), and stores
>     the results in a graph database (eg, Datomic).  The results are
>     thus available for querying, processing, visualization, etc.
> 
>     Although Codeq is very promising, it is only a proof of concept,
>     lacking analyzers, a control framework, and presentation tools.
>     Turning Codeq into a production suite would be a substantial
>     software engineering effort, with corresponding visibility.  The
>     student would extend the base that Codeq provides, producing a
>     compelling and robust example of the power of this approach.
> 
>   Expected results:
> 
>     The suite should be ready for "drop-in" installation in typical
>     Clojure shops.  It should do continuous harvesting of code bases.
>     It should extend the current Clojure analyzer to harvest names of
>     called functions and methods, use of global state, etc.
> 
>     Stretch goals might include other analyzers (eg, Java), queries
>     for common use cases, analysis and visualization software, etc.
> 
>   Knowledge prerequisites:
> 
>     Interest in mechanized program analysis.  Experience with Clojure.
> 
>   Difficulty:  Medium
> 
>   Mentor:  Rich Morin (mechanized documentation enthusiast),
>            Tom Faulhaber (author of Autodoc, cl-format, etc.)
> 
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