Looking for suggestions in editing FPro files

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You'll never BELIEVE what Bill Campbell said here...:
> Once upon a time, Lennie Rosenberg and I were working on a
> translater that would allow one to write in a higher level
> language similar to python, perl, or C, and generate FilePro
> processing tables.  Lennie's untimely death, and my schedule
> ended this though.
> 
> This would make a nice project for an introduction to compiler
> writing course.

That's two packages like that which were scrapped.  I thought Laura had
fPStruct announced as in development at one time, and that (TTBOMK) never
materialised.  If it did materialise, it's keeping a very low profile.

It's a shame nothing like that ever really came to fruition.

Those concepts are, alas, outside my realm of knowledge or in-depth
interest.  I never bothered learning assembly, either.  I really prefer
high-level languages and -not- having to muck about with internals.

It does actually kind of put an interesting idea out there, though.  It
would be interesting to see fP-Tech feed fP to a university CS department
for a semester class project to write exactly that sort of creature for
them.

mark->
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