Re: SoC 2007 application

["Duilio Protti" <dprotti () fceia unr edu ar>]

Diman Todorov wrote:
> > About the project to work in, I have posted some ideas about the NSE
> > infrastructure and I have others in mind, like i.e. the standalone NSE
> > interpreter, at least for the autotools-related part.
> By 'functional programming facilities' I meant things like map,
> apply, car, cdr, cons etc. I was thinking that http://lua-users.org/
> wiki/ListOperations could be used as a starting point and be extended
> to be something like the Prelude in Haskell. Comprehensions are not
> exactly a conventional part of the functional programming paradigm ;)

That's true. However, observe that if you have map, filter and the
possibility of binding variables, you can implement comprehensions lists
with that.

> And just as a side note, hacking the Lua interpreter coming with NSE
> is not desirable. If we stay with the vanilla sources of Lua it is a
> lot easier to upgrade to newer Lua versions as they come.
> Unfortunately there is no other sufficiently straightforward method
> to modify the NSE syntax (yet). This is also the reason why the
> bitwise operators in NSE come as a lib and not as operators ;)

Thanks! I see a bigger picture now. As you have probably seen, finally I
don't apply for SoC 2007, due to the lack of time to prepare a good
project proposal as Nmap deserves. However, I keep in contact with the
project in nmap-dev list.

Keep the good work!

Cheers,
Duilio Protti.



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