[abc] Semmle Ltd.

Hi abc-ers,

I thought I should let the whole abc team know about some recent
developments at Oxford. After much deliberation, the progtools
group has decided to set up a company.

The name of the company is "Semmle" (a scottish verb meaning
"to gather, to arrange in an orderly fashion"). Its initial focus
is on query languages for complex data, and I shall be making
the first public presentation of Semmle technology in my talk
at PEPM on Tuesday.

The formation of Semmle has no immediate bearing on abc, except
perhaps that for the next few weeks, several of us at Oxford will
not be fixing abc bugs in the evenings and weekends, instead
concentrating on product development. Semmle products will *not* be
open source, and to avoid problems with intellectual property
rights, Semmle and abc will be kept strictly separate.
That being said, we're of course sympathetic to the idea of
calling its query technology in implementing more powerful pointcut
languages in abc...

Please do not hesitate to contact me if you have any questions or
concerns.

Best wishes,

-Oege

URLs:

http://www.program-transformation.org/PEPM07/ObjectOrientedQueriesOverSoftwareSystems
http://www.semmle.com
Received on Sun Jan 14 16:02:56 2007