[antlr-interest] we need a name for a new rewriting tool

Arnulf Heller aheller at gmx.at
Tue Jul 22 13:58:19 PDT 2008


I'd call it "Brian" because the romans forced him to re-write 
"Romans, go home" a hundred times :-)

http://www.mwscomp.com/movies/brian/brian-08.htm

Maybe it could also serve as an acronym:

"Because Rewriting Is Amazingly Neat" or so :-)



>The only problem we have is that we don't know what to call it. I
>originally had a nice tree rewriting system called Sorcerer (14 years
>ago) but now there are things like sourcerer and so on. can anybody
>help us name this tool?
>
>THesaurus entries:
>
>rewrite: revise, recast,reword, rephrase, redraft.
>
>transform: change, alter,convert, metamorphose, transfigure,
>transmute, mutate; revolutionize,overhaul; remodel, reshape, redo,
>reconstruct, rebuild, reorganize, rearrange,rework, renew, revamp,
>remake, retool, transmogrify, morph
>
>rebuild: reconstruct, renovate, restore, remodel, remake,reassemble.
>
>Do any of those words help us?
>
>I think "morph" is actually not bad.  Morpheme sounds cooler but makes
>less sense.  Morphica?  Morphic?  Morphologic? Morphomatic? ha! that
>one is funny.
>
>How about metamorph? I like that one! google search only reveals a
>molecular device and some stupid school has taken metamorph.org. I
>guess that is no big deal because we will be using the antlr.org
>website for that.
>
>Ter



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