Has anyone ever attempted to automatically add meaning, semantics, longer variable names, loops, and comments automatically to code? Just how good are the beautifiers out there, and can we do better?
No, I'm not asking anyone to break a license agreement. Ideally, I would want this to work on code written by a human being--me. Yes, I realize that literate programming is the way to go. I just have never explored other options before, and would like to know about the literature. Say I am trying to derive language for requirements and use cases based on existing source code. I believe this may be beyond current reverse engineering techniques which stop at the UML models. I don't want models, I want text, perhaps written in a Problem Oriented Language (POL). That is, how does one derive a good POL from existing code? Is this the same as writing a scripting language on top of a library? What approaches have been tried? Here's the POL I want. I want a POL to describe game rules at the same order of magnitude as English. I am not speaking of animation or resources--just rules and constraints. Does the Object Constraint Language suffice for this? Thanks, John
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