[Vimoutliner] Vorst dead end analysis

[Steve Litt]

On Friday 19 October 2007 10:22, Noel Henson wrote:
> On Friday 19 October 2007, Steve Litt wrote:
> > Hi David,
> >
> > One thing I always do at the beginning of a project is a dead end
> > analysis, so if there's something that's going to stop the show I find
> > it before I've written 500 lines of code.
>
> Steve, is all the necessary data available to complete the
> computation/method? (snicker).

Wiseguy :-)

Yes, the data is available. However, much of the data must reside in the 
outline, and I see no way of making some of that data clean and simple -- for 
instance indices, crossreferences, bibliographies. In other words, the 
outline runs the risk of looking like LaTeX, in which case, why outline?

Incidentally, last night at the Orlando Ruby User's Group I saw presentations 
on Ruby metaprogramming and Domain Specific Languages (DSL). A DSL is a tiny 
language whose terms are terms from the problem domain. It's almost like 
building your own interpreter, but it still has Ruby behind it. I'm wondering 
if a Domain Specific Language could help in some way.

SteveT

Steve Litt
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