[Moose-dev] Re: Moose for SAS

On Wed, 2010-06-16 at 02:17 +0200, Tudor Girba wrote: > > I do not know SAS, but you should check to see if the concepts > present > in FAMIX are of use to you. If yes, you can directly instantiate > them > from your parser. If not, then you will want to code a new > meta-model, > or extend the current ones to accommodate your needs. You can then > describe this new meta-model using FM3 (this is achieved via > Smalltalk > pragmas) and you get a browser and import-export in the MSE format > for > free. > > Once you have your Smalltalk objects as instances of the meta-model, > you can then use Mondrian and Glamour for building visual tools, or > the MooseAlgos to express graph-specific algorithms. > > Does this help? Well, I was hoping that I would need to specify the meta-model or the meta-meta-model, but not both.

That is, I was hoping the tools could build one out of the other. It sounds as if you're telling me I need to do both. I hope I'm misunderstanding :) Also, is there a guide to what the pragmas are?

Ross