[Jython-dev] jGrasp integration?

[Stephen L A. <sa...@ea...>]

Howdy:

I'm just getting started with Python (and boy is it cool :) but I 
have a general need to analyze (and reverse-engineer) code in 
multiple languages.  One of the nicer tools I've found is Grasp:

http://www.eng.auburn.edu/department/cse/research/grasp/

It supports java, Ada95, C, C++, and VHDL, but it would be 
ultimately cooler with Python support.  The Auburn University guys 
are not exactly hard-core GNU guys, but I believe the source code 
is available.  There are the original windoze and Linux/UNIX 
versions of Grasp, but only jGrasp is currently under active 
development.

I don't really have the background to do any serious code 
development yet (but I'm trying to learn) nor do I have any time at 
the moment; I think I have one-too-many jobs or kids, but I can't 
figure out which...  I did put a bug in their ear about adding 
Python support to Grasp, but they seem stuck on Java for some 
reason I can't understand.

So I was wondering if any of you folks would be interested in the 
idea of integrating jython with jGrasp, and adding full Python 
support to the Grasp environment.  It would be really cool for 
large Python (and multi-language) projects, analyzing and 
"grokking" someone else's code, etc.  Grasp/jGrasp already supports 
gcc, GNAT, JDK (sun and blackdown), M$(crap)C++, etc, and would be 
that much cooler with Python...  You could visualize code and build 
projects using all of the above from the same environment.  Cool, 
no?

I just had the chance to attend Python 9 (my first real nerd 
conference :) and I was extremely impressed with Python and what 
everyone was doing with it.  Just like Eric Jones said in some of 
his Numeric Python slides - "Amazing..."

Anyway, thanks for listening (reading) - Steve Arnold

PS. To those I met at the conference - It was really cool meeting 
you all.  Keep it up; I was completely blown away.  It was a 180 
degree change from watching a large well-known firm totally screw 
up a $1.4 billion program (yes, I said billion).  You guys are so 
much cooler, it's not even funny...

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Steve Arnold  CLE (Certifiable Linux Evangelist)

http://arnolds.dhs.org