Usability Ideas

One question from tef: What about libraries? Most applications use libraries, and if we want to do automatic porting of the software from one language to another, then we will have to have a mapping of libraries between the two.

  • Do we want to not have this as a use case?
    • What are our use cases anyways?
    • If we eliminate this, then are we cutting off a major potential use area?

Another idea from tef: context sensitive ideas, such as Perl's scalar vs. list thing (when lists are provided to an operation expecting a scalar, for instance, then it returns its length) - we would have to either execute the code or through some way of obtaining this contextual information when doing the parse.

  • Perhaps through semantic functions?
  • Do we also want to chuck this use case? We're chucking an awful lot of them it seems. :(