I’ve just committed a bunch of changes to Tefkat without a log message! I’m really annoyed about that partly because I spent a good deal of time determining exactly what all the changes did, and partly because now that I’ve made this mistake (I swear that Eclipse never prompted me for the message) I [...]
The other day I was wondering about why we even need things like MOF/EMF (ignoring the cross-language story). That is, why don’t modern OO languages include associations (and their containment/multiplicity constraints) as first-class concepts.
Today I browsed over to this article by Dave Thomas (of smalltalk fame), a sometime DSTC visitor, and found this sentence:
Closely [...]
No builds available yet, but you can grab the code (LGPLed) from subversion if you’re really keen:
svn co https://svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/tefkat/trunk tefkat
Note that I expect there will be a complete package rename (to replace the vestigal com.dstc) before the first release.
Approximately 40min into podcast #034 the Java Posse address my question about equals() between Java Long and Int objects.
Can’t wait until they put the question to Joshua Bloch.
This talk reminds me that I wonder if a good QVT language needs to provide special-purpose support for handling namespaces, scopes, and name resolution.
Certainly AntiAntiYacc will need it!
I should really look up Bill Waite’s old compiler construction kit from the late 80s…seems it’s still alive on SourceForge: http://eli-project.sourceforge.net
Dave Thomas again, this time mentioning Naked Objects, says (in http://pragprog.com/pragdave/Practices/MechPolicy.rdoc) stuff that exactly echos the kind of thinking I had in mind wrt flexible workflows in my APNIC document.
When I first started thinking about this, I was reminded of the audience discussions that sometimes erupt when I talk about Naked Objects. A Naked Objects [...]
Dave Thomas talks about code-generation/DSLs here: http://www.codegeneration.net/tiki-read_article.php?articleId=9.
This dove-tails with a bunch of recent thoughts regarding QVT vs templating and the whole cumbersome pain of defining Models, instantiating Instances, and then working with them.
I suspect this would really be a whole bunch easier if the standard EMF editor allowed “import” of other Models into the ResourceSet, [...]