Re: [fonc] Reading Maxwell's Equations

2010-02-26 Thread Gerry J
John, et al I am interested in what you think are the better approach alternatives to handle complexity and size (etc), what criteria should apply and why one ranks higher than another. For example, should a language support both actors and be model driven? Is a mix of type inference and

Re: [fonc] Systems and artifacts

2010-05-01 Thread Gerry J
At Andrey's reference (2),there was an example that TCP/IP could be modelled in less than a hundred LOC, whereas a C code version might be more than an order of magnitude larger. Is that model available? Regards, Gerry Jensen 02 9713 6004 Alan Kay wrote: It used to be more clear. The main

Ometa references was Re: [fonc] Systems and artifacts

2010-05-03 Thread Gerry J
Thanks Andrey, i thought it might be useful to others (especially newbies who come here first) to post a few other Ometa related URLs/posts, with yours http://www.moserware.com/2008/04/towards-moores-law-software-part-3-of-3.html http://www.tinlizzie.org/ometa/

Re: [fonc] Reverse OMeta and Emulation

2010-06-21 Thread Gerry J
You may find the concept of semantic slicing relevant: http://www.cse.dmu.ac.uk/~mward/martin/papers/csmr2005-t.pdf There is software at: http://www.cse.dmu.ac.uk/~mward/fermat.html One possible path to explore is to take GNU C etc intermediate representation of source as the assembly language