Hi Mark:

that is an impressive project with 1 month of effort.

I tend to conclude that Demeter/Java is competitive with
Perl for projects of this pattern-implementation kind, especially when you 
take the maintainability into account. For the first version
however, Perl code size is smaller than
Demeter/Java code size.

As you point out, Demeter/Java is less helpful if there is a substantial
amount of non-traversal logic in the program. In the non-traversal logic
there is no structure-related redundancy and then Demeter/Java is
only as good as Java for that part of the program.


I put drop6 for now at:

http://www.ccs.neu.edu/research/demeter/course/f97/projects/motorola/drop6/html/project.html

I look forward to the final version.

I noticed one typo: we are Northeastern University, not Northwestern
University. This is a recurring pattern that people put me at Northwestern.

Best regards,
-- Karl
PS. Congratulations to your A for the class!

>From Mark_Janney-P26816@email.mot.com Mon Jan 12 12:14:50 1998
>From: Mark Janney-P26816 <Mark_Janney-P26816@email.mot.com>
>Subject: SE737F Project Fall 97 - Drop 6 : please acknowledge
>To: lieber@ccs.neu.edu
>
>Hi -
>
>Here is a first cut at the web pages for my project. I still have some cleaning
>up
>to do and some missing links to add in (mostly to the files on your site, which
>I couldn't access this weekend because of troubles with our Firewall), so this
>is
>more of a 'good faith' gesture than a final drop. I will have the final version
>ready next week.
>