This sounds like fun !
I asked my cat (Bubba) what he would do and his response was:
(1) Rename the project to "The Y3K Project for XX" where XX represents the
person who asked
you to do this.
(2) Refactor the intermediate code into three types of models: (1) process,
(2) data, and (3) constraints/rules.
(3) Export these models to an ontology tool where you can finish the
relationship modeling.
(4) Blend the resulting relationships (in each model) into a coherent design
that may be partitioned and layered
to solve the problem.
(5) Integrate the partitioned (and layered) pieces into a system.
(6) Send Bubba a beer.
(7) Realizing that you are now worth your weight in gold - get a raise !
P.S. Bubba said that he is still working on the representation problem.
----- Original Message -----
From: "H Jansen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Michael Welter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, February 28, 2001 8:19 AM
Subject: Re: JESS: knowledge representation
> I think you're better off with a dedicated parser tool like, for
> instance the decendent-recursive translator construction toolkit ANTLR
> (http://www.antlr.org).
>
> Henk Jansen
>
> Michael Welter wrote:
> >
> > Maybe someone can help. I have several thousand program modules (COBOL,
> >
> > PL/1, 4GL, SQL, PowerBuilder, etc.) that must be re-engineered to run in
> >
> > a Java Enterprise environment. And they want it by years end <chuckle>.
> >
> > I'm thinking I'll write parsers to reduce the code into a common
> > format. From there I will be able to refactor and then generate the
> > code into Java. But I can't seem to visualize this common format.
> >
> > This intermediate structure would be the parse tree hierarchy: module,
> > function,
> > declarations, imperative statements, etc. It would be no problem to
> > generate Jess facts to represent a program module, but how would Jess
> > rules
> > operate on a hierarchy?
> >
> > So, here's my question: how _do_ I represent this knowledge? Am I
> > better-off in Lisp? Does anyone know someone who has done this before?
> >
> > Thanks for your help,
> > Mike
> >
> > --
> > Michael Welter
> > Denver, Colorado, USA
> > __o Phone: +1 303 674 2575
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