Re: SoC 2007 application

[Diman Todorov <diman.todorov () chello at>]

Hello Duilio,

On 25.03.2007, at 18:34, Duilio Protti wrote:

> Hi, I contact you because of my interest in to be engaged in SoC  
> 2007 with
> Nmap as my mentoring organization.
I hope we will be able to make this possible for you.
> Currently I'm a student of Computer Science in a University of  
> Argentina.
> I'm working mid-time (15 hours a week) for a security firm in my  
> city, and
> at the same time I'm writing my final thesis, but I have no  
> problems in
> postpone the latter for three months if I have the opportunity to
> participate in SoC 2007.
Are you sure that you will have enough time for the summer of code?  
Students are usually expected to work at least 30-45 hours a week  
during the 3 SoC months.

> 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 ;)

When I said 'debugging methods' I meant some sort of infrastructure  
which allows NSE programmers to provide the users of their scripts  
with debug output. Currently this is done with the API function  
print_debug_unformatted which takes a string and prints it only at  
higher verbosity levels. This is not exactly a clean solution. Your  
idea with streams sounds interesting but you would have to elaborate  
a bit how it would work and what its benefits would be over an  
extension upon the existing infrastructure. I am afraid I am not  
familiar with ML syntax so I don't understand why your code snippet  
is better than doing the same thing in another way. You might want to  
propose a syntax you are aiming for. It doesn't have to be final but  
it should give a rough idea of how I would use your new debugging  
facility in NSE.

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 ;)

cheers
Diman




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