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

Chris Rebert cvrebert at gmail.com
Tue Jul 22 20:39:35 PDT 2008


On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 1:58 PM, Arnulf Heller <aheller at gmx.at> wrote:
> 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 :-)
>

+1 for being a Monty Python reference!
- Chris

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>
>> 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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