A success story using Demeter/Java ...

Although it is primarily intended as a tool to facilitate software
evolution, it proves also to be fast on the first iteration 
for some projects ...

-- Karl

From jtsilla@ccs.neu.edu Tue Nov 10 15:00:48 1998
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:00:46 -0500 (EST)
From: James Tsillas <jtsilla@ccs.neu.edu>
To: lieber@ccs.neu.edu
Subject: Demeter/Java in action

Just thought you might be interested to know that I used Demeter/Java to
develop a tool where I work (Ascend Communications). This tool takes
the output from a C++ compiler and generates structure offsets files
so we can integrate handwritten assembly code with our C code.

I used a .cd file to represent the output of the compiler and wrote
a couple of visitors to go around and print the structure fields
in a format which our assembler can understand.

It took me less than an hour to get the whole thing to work.
Using C++ and (or even something friendlier like Perl) would have
taken at least a day or two.

thanks,
-Jim.