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Re: Source code representation

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On 11/1/11 1:46 PM, Patricia Shanahan wrote:
> On 11/1/2011 9:41 AM, Daniel Pitts wrote:
> ....
>> I've often thought about a "new" way of representing code, where the
>> logical structure is stored in not-necessarily-human-editable format,
>> but the tools for managing the code allow it to be presented in a format
>> chosen by the particular maintainer.
>>
>> In other words, you have the language constructs (classes, methods,
>> fields, statements, aspects, loops, etc...) modeled, and then have view
>> in front of that model which make them "look" like something that can be
>> manipulated easily by the programmer.
>>
>> I would imagine such a system has a bit of ramp-up time, but it would
>> eventually allow you to be much more productive. The "concrete" manor
>> that the object model stores things would allow you to refactor very
>> easily.
>
> I think one of the more difficult problems would be adjusting revision
> control systems, including diff and merge programs. They would
> themselves presumably work on the abstract representation, but have to
> present their results in the programmer's view.
>
> Patricia
I agree, I had thought the exact same thing actually ;-)

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  Re: code generation for the ternary operator Jaap Droogers <JaapDroogers@unusable.meel.homelinux.net> - 2011-10-28 16:07 +0200
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          Source code representation (was: code generation for the ternary operator). Daniel Pitts <newsgroup.nospam@virtualinfinity.net> - 2011-11-01 09:41 -0700
            Re: Source code representation Patricia Shanahan <pats@acm.org> - 2011-11-01 13:46 -0700
              Re: Source code representation Daniel Pitts <newsgroup.nospam@virtualinfinity.net> - 2011-11-01 16:09 -0700
              Re: Source code representation Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2011-11-01 23:54 -0700
            Re: Source code representation (was: code generation for the ternary operator). Gene Wirchenko <genew@ocis.net> - 2011-11-01 17:33 -0700
              Re: Source code representation (was: code generation for the ternary operator). Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2011-11-02 01:19 -0700
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              Re: Source code representation (was: code generation for the ternary operator). Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com> - 2011-11-02 07:45 -0700
              Re: Source code representation Daniel Pitts <newsgroup.nospam@virtualinfinity.net> - 2011-11-02 10:58 -0700
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                Re: Source code representation Daniel Pitts <newsgroup.nospam@virtualinfinity.net> - 2011-11-02 15:21 -0700
                Re: Source code representation Gene Wirchenko <genew@ocis.net> - 2011-11-02 16:07 -0700
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                Re: Source code representation (was: code generation for the ternary operator). Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid> - 2011-11-02 20:58 +0000
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