Alright, that does it.
Feb. 10th, 2004 02:12 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kickahaI'm going to throw humility to the wind.
I rock.
No, I *FUCKING* rock.
I just unified Mealy-Moore/infinite transducer machines into object-oriented theory as a freakin' side-effect of my research.
"Okay, so if I concentrate on the similarity intent on *this* side of the equation's parameters, I get..." *blink* "Wait. That looks... familiar..."
*bounce bounce bounce*
I now have a formal basis not only for every goddamned software metric I've ever seen, but a new way of looking at OO in general... Mealy-Moore machines became the basis for modern electrical engineering. They gave the foundation for allowing incremental analysis of systems in a meaningful way - something software doesn't have.
ITMs were a 1956 creation that went nowhere - but on reading the original paper, it struck me how similar they were in feel to OO. I made some notes, left it alone.
I just came full-circle.
ITMs and Mealy-Moore machines are fundamentally the same thing. Which means that there is now a formal basis for incremental analysis of software systems at a design level for things that have been passed over as not only too difficult, but probably impossible to actually do.
See, ITMs are an offshoot of Turing's c-machine idea... oh, my head is swimming.
Off to see where this stream takes me. :D
I rock.
No, I *FUCKING* rock.
I just unified Mealy-Moore/infinite transducer machines into object-oriented theory as a freakin' side-effect of my research.
"Okay, so if I concentrate on the similarity intent on *this* side of the equation's parameters, I get..." *blink* "Wait. That looks... familiar..."
*bounce bounce bounce*
I now have a formal basis not only for every goddamned software metric I've ever seen, but a new way of looking at OO in general... Mealy-Moore machines became the basis for modern electrical engineering. They gave the foundation for allowing incremental analysis of systems in a meaningful way - something software doesn't have.
ITMs were a 1956 creation that went nowhere - but on reading the original paper, it struck me how similar they were in feel to OO. I made some notes, left it alone.
I just came full-circle.
ITMs and Mealy-Moore machines are fundamentally the same thing. Which means that there is now a formal basis for incremental analysis of software systems at a design level for things that have been passed over as not only too difficult, but probably impossible to actually do.
See, ITMs are an offshoot of Turing's c-machine idea... oh, my head is swimming.
Off to see where this stream takes me. :D