[exprla-devel] RE: [xpl] Groves Annotated

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--- In xpl-dev@y..., "Richard Anthony Hein" <935551@i...> wrote:
Great input Jonathan, once again.  I wish I understood more than half 
of
what you said.  I also think that the newer XPath and other related
specifications may do some of the things that we need for XPL, and I 
will do
whatever research I can into these areas.

Since Paul wrote in his article that comments were welcome, perhaps 
you
should send him an email with a link back to your annotations to his
article.  He would surely be able to help clear up some of the 
questions and
concerns you bring up; maybe he'll even join the group (the author of
WorldOS joined now, which is cool and a nice surprise).

You wrote in your annotations that you have a lot of compiler 
experience ...
do you have any suggested sources to look into to get a better idea 
about
compilers and even perhaps "how to make a computer language" type
information?  :-)  I still haven't a clue how you can make up a 
syntax and
semantics, and build a compiler to translate it all to machine 
language.
Don't you have to use an already existing language such as Assembly 
or C to
do make the compiler?  Probably a really stupid question, but I 
transfered
out of computer science and into neuroscience (which would explain my
interest in your XPL-fog posts.  I started CS with the intent to go 
into a
neuroscience MS afterwards, hoping to work on neural networks and AI, 
but I
switched into Nesc. early - I blame it all on my boring COBOL co-op 
term and
all the really unhappy programmers working there), so I never got 
that far.
:-(
I will be going back to finish up that plan once I pay back the money 
I
already owe, and save enough to go back to university.

Sincerely,

Richard A. Hein
  -----Original Message-----
  From: me@m... [mailto:me@m...]On
Behalf Of Jonathan Burns
  Sent: June 18, 2000 11:44 PM
  To: xpl@e...
  Subject: [xpl] Groves Annotated


  I've just finished a review of Paul Prescod's Addressing the 
Enterprise:
Why the Web needs Groves,
  as an annotated version of the original document.

  It's up on my homepage -  here's the URL.

  Once I've done some further investigation and amended the thing, 
I'd like
to pass it to XML-DEV, and see who bites.

  Jonathan




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