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Date:	Sun, 10 Aug 2003 20:16:28 PDT7
From:	Tom Novelli <tcn@mtdata.com >
Reply-To:	scoug-programming@scoug.com
To:	< "scoug-programming@scoug.com" > scoug-programming@scoug.com >
Subject:	SCOUG-Programming: English as programming language (was: Warpstock 2003 Presentation)

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On Sat, 9 Aug 2003, Lynn H. Maxson wrote:
>
> It's a pure Bill of Material (BOM) manufacturing system. Like
> any such system it allows you to "explode" an assembly down
> through its hierarchy of lower level assemblies and raw
> materials ultimately down to a list of all the raw materials
> (statements and sentences) used. It also allows you for any
> raw material or assembly to create a "where used" used
> listing. This latter allows you to make a change to source
> code, produce a listing of all affected assemblies, and alter
> the source text in those assemblies to correspond to the
> change.

I've used enough BOM systems to think there's gotta be a better way...
like plain-text files! (programmable parametric BOMs, you might say)
It's pretty typical to have 20 variations of a part on one drawing, but
the clumsy database requires 20 separate nearly identical BOMs with
nothing to indicate their similarity. As programmers we already have
plain-text source code with a well-defined syntax, so it shouldn't be that
hard to write a simplified parser to create BOMs and Where Used lists. I
haven't felt the need yet, but it might be worthwhile for something huge
like a Linux kernel.

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