More Ideas To Explore

• Parsing — Something beyond YACC/RACC style
  • Would it be possible to make writing stream based XML parsers easier?
• State Tables … Building state transistion tables is tedious
  • Something like SMC (http://smc.sourceforge.org) would be easy in Ruby.
• Business Rules … Nat Pryce is playing with what he calles "higher order messaging".
  • E.g. claimants.where.retired?.do.recieve_benefit 50
  • (see http://nat.truemesh.com/archives/000537.html)