Thank you very much for your nice message. It is a pleasure to receive it.

With your permission, may I post it in the file at URL:

ftp://ftp.ccs.neu.edu/pub/people/lieber/Demeter-interest

?

Unfortunatly, we don't have Demeter Tools/Delphi. But Peter Orbaek at
MIT implemented Adaptive Perl in just a few days. See:

http://www.ccs.neu.edu/research/demeter/

So a simple version Adaptive Delphi should not be hard to produce.

Here at Northeastern, we focus on developing Adaptive Java which
consumes our resources. 

But if we get additional financial support, we could help with
Adaptive Delphi, by hiring a student to do it. In any case, we would like 
to have some involvement in developing Adaptive Delphi.
(Saegesser developed Adaptive Turbo Pascal.)

Best regards,
-- Karl



From 106042.1615@compuserve.com Mon May 20 15:50:26 1996
From: 106042.1615@compuserve.com
Date: Mon, 20 May 1996 15:49:38 -0400 (EDT)
To: demeter@ccs.neu.edu
Subject: Thanks for demeter

The subject really gives it away. Thanks for demeter. 
A few weeks I stumbled across the book in a local bookstore and 
it somehow drew my attention. Now after having studied it I find myself employing
the philosophy in the projects I am doing.

Having been a functional programming adept for quite some years, I think this
book for the first time provided really convincing material in favor of OO programming.
I especially like the structure shyness of the approach. I used to think FP did a great 
job in this respect, but it is outperformed by the methodology described in the book.

Although I follow the methodology I am more than eager to use the tools. Unfortunately
I'm currently developing C/S applications using Delphi, and I haven't found any references
of the Demeter tools being available for that target.

Could you provide some pointers in this direction? I've been considering setting up a crude
form of the tools described, but I don't think I can find enough time and endurance to really 
work this out on my own.

Many thanks in advance,

Mark van der Voort