Hi to all you fellow SE grads. I'd like to let you in on a little project of mine. After working with C++ and Ada and running into a lot of the pitfalls and land mines with them, I figured the world could use yet another programming language by yet another amateur language designer.

The idea actually sparked from one of Dr. Rodgers' assignments for Programming Languages class. He asked us to describe what we thought would be the perfect programming language. Now, three years later, I haven't been able to get that question out of my head.

See my results so far at www.stevedwire.com/steve/graam. I would welcome any feedback. I want to make this language as close to perfect as is humanly possible, and to do that, I need your help!.

I know that we graduates of the Software Engineering program at UWF received a lot of great training, and I know that the rest of you have some perspectives on software engineering and program design that I simply do not have. How many times have you said, "I wish they would have asked my opinion when they made this decision"? This is your chance to impact the design of a language still in its infancy. I'm asking your opinion!

One of the things I'm trying to avoid with graam is the kind of error that silently produces incorrect code. For example, this C snippet has two common errors that compile just fine, but are usually not what the programmer expects:

if (x = 5);
{
  DoSomething();
}

Sure, lint would find them, but who uses lint regularly, and why should we have to? I would love for someone to find similar land mines in graam. My goal is to make safe programming easy but still make it possible to do things I didn't anticipate.

As I said, graam is still in its infancy, so the information at my site is still pretty sketchy. I don't expect graam to displace C++ in the entire industry (at least not any time soon), but with your help, it just might become the perfect language for you.
Steve Dwire <steve_uwf@stevedwire.com>
[Thu]-[09/09/99]-[13:33:48]

I have formed a software consulting company here in SC called DataMercenaries, Inc. Check it out.

Thanks all - take care. matt
Matt Stucky <stuckym@prodigy.net>
[Thu]-[05/06/99]-[07:34:55]

anyway, for those of you who can't get enough geeking in, here is a handy link to get your fix. It is NASA's software enginnering page, and the document probably most interesting there is the "Recommended Approach to Software Development, Revision 3." It is a 200+ page .pdf document. Looks to be mostly about Ada in a Flight Dynamics environment (go figure!) but it is still full of great stuff.

Finally selling my house in Pcola. Oh, and looking at opening a computer/technical bookstore here in Greenville. Would love any comments anyone has.
Matt Stucky <stuckym@prodigy.net>
[Wed]-[10/14/98]-[16:37:56]

Hello ALL:  I am finally on-board at Shell Services 
International in Houston. I am currently working on
wireless data retreival technology for some clients
and love it. I work 80 hours in 9 days and get every
other Friday off. Life is good. E-mail me for further
updates so I can reconstruct my e-mail directory!