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From: elfring@users.sourceforge.net (SF Markus Elfring)
Date: Sun, 28 Oct 2012 17:02:25 +0100
Subject: [Cocci] semantic patches for C preprocessing constructs?
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> Huh?  Coccinelle is written in Ocaml.  Matching C preprocessing code
> requires pervasive changes to its implementation.  Thus it requires
> knowing the language in which the code is implemented.

I suggest to raise the abstraction level a bit. I see chances to get some
contributions then from developers who are still more familiar with other
programming languages. How do you think about model-driven development?
Can this software design approach improve idea exchange?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Model-driven_engineering

Regards,
Markus