[Moose-dev] Re: pharo and moose

I'm reading the part of the moose book that teaches how to write a parser. I need to write such a parser. I have a system written in a proprietary language, for which there are no external parsers unless I write one. I have a huge file (28MB , 1.5 million lines) which resembles in format a XML file, but it's not really XML, but a variation in tagging program elements. Should I partition the huge file in smaller units before trying to run a MSE parser on it? Or should the huge grammar parser work? I can approach any of the two paths. I think that once everything is inside the meta-model (which I'll have to write too later) , it is of little importance if the data came from a huge file , or if it came from two thousand smaller files. Am I right? How big a model can get? Hope this helps helping me :-) Additionally, the semantics of the proprietary language I'm trying to parse is procedural. It's not object oriented. One of my goals, is to reegineer the procedural code so that it can be abstracted, and made object oriented in some other open source language, like, say, python, or whichever fits. That would involve a 'writer' from the transformations on the model, which is fine. The transformations on the model might rely on some already existent tools in moose, as well as on hand-made tools adapted to the idiosyncracies of this language. I'm looking for general help on this big picture process. I'm willing to deal with the details myself, and ask for help if I get stuck :-) best wishes Haroldo 2013/2/21 Haroldo Stenger <haroldo.stenger(a)gmail.com>