Take a look at the Inform 7 language (http://inform7.com/) and its modular 'rulebooks'.
Creating good rules-based languages isn't trivial, mostly because ad-hoc rules can interfere in ways that are awkward to reason about or optimize. Temporal logic (e.g. Dedalus, Bloom) and constraint-logic techniques are both appropriate and effective. I think my RDP will also be effective. Creating a good POL can be difficult. (cf. http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/4653) On Tue, Jan 8, 2013 at 7:33 AM, John Carlson <yottz...@gmail.com> wrote: > Has anyone ever attempted to automatically add meaning, semantics, longer > variable names, loops, and comments automatically to code? Just how good > are the beautifiers out there, and can we do better? > > No, I'm not asking anyone to break a license agreement. Ideally, I would > want this to work on code written by a human being--me. > > Yes, I realize that literate programming is the way to go. I just have > never explored other options before, and would like to know about the > literature. > > Say I am trying to derive language for requirements and use cases based on > existing source code. > > I believe this may be beyond current reverse engineering techniques which > stop at the UML models. I don't want models, I want text, perhaps written > in a Problem Oriented Language (POL). > > That is, how does one derive a good POL from existing code? Is this the > same as writing a scripting language on top of a library? > > What approaches have been tried? > > Here's the POL I want. I want a POL to describe game rules at the same > order of magnitude as English. I am not speaking of animation or > resources--just rules and constraints. Does the Object Constraint Language > suffice for this? > > Thanks, > > John > > _______________________________________________ > fonc mailing list > fonc@vpri.org > http://vpri.org/mailman/listinfo/fonc > > -- bringing s-words to a pen fight
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