InteLibRoadMap

At this page I have outlined the most visible (heh) directions we can follow in our further work.

Roadmap

The InteLib development directions:

• More computational models of "foreign" languages:
  • Implementation of the DataLog computational model and interfaces to several DB management systems, e.g. PostgreSQL, MySQL and Berkley DB
  • ScriptingLanguagesParadigms support
  • Planner language (work in progress by Olga Shtefan)
  • Prolog language (taken by NinaSkalko)
  • Haskell language (See HaskellFiles about some not-so-successful attempts taken in the past)
  • ECMAScript integration (something done on this by OlegFrantsuzov) [Hey Oleg, where are the results???]
  • Erlang language
• Some binds of the library to the real world:
  • Graphics support
    • A simple drawing tool that hides all the XWindow machinery
    • A full-class Xlib binding
    • A Tk binding
  • (questionable) unicode support
• Further improvements to the Lisp part of the library:
  • Backquote/comma
  • Lisp functions which return multiple values
  • Common Lisp non-local exits
  • Common Lisp flavor cycles (optional feature, because of huge amount of required labels)
  • Compatibility between Common Lisp and ILL
• Improvements for the Scheme part of the library
  • Macro system (in progress, by IvanBeloborodov?)
  • Extended arithmetics (in progress, by Alexey Balekhov aka BlackNight)
  • Lazy evaluation
• CLOS (hmmmm.... let's call it a task for the case of nothing-else-to-do ;-)
• ILL/ILS translators:
  • Macro expansion at the compile time
• Cross-platform problems investigation
  • Try to compile under WinXXX and summarize the results
  • Create an installable package
  • FreeBSD port wanted to place into the official FreeBSD port collection
• More features to heterogenous data structures
• Full numerical tower implementation (in progress, by Alexey Balekhov aka BlackNight)
• See also InteLibSchemeToDo

Besides that, there are several directions for which it would be interesting to use InteLib:

• XML parsing (Still no published results!)
• Wiki server (now vacant again)
• Signature analyses of program code pools
• Graph processing (see discussion in Russian: http://www.livejournal.com/users/croco/36489.html?thread=258697#t258697) (Now vacant again) (discussion is not available!!)
• Batch HTTP client and server with embedded Lisp (taken by Yulia Vlasenko)
• SMTP server with embedded Lisp
• Some games with embedded Lisp interpreters

Possible etudes for InteLib:

• Math. vectors and matrices; generalized arithmetics

Generic todo issues

• Testing the current version with different compile-time option combinations
• Documentation, How-to-use InteLib etc.
  • English documentation
  • Russian documentation