From: Sammy Larbi <sam@...>
Date: 2007-05-04T23:08:54+09:00
Subject: [ANN/Request for eyes] Constructing a Partial Order Planner in Ruby

Disclosure:  As part of a school project, I've been writing about 
partial order planning and implemented a simple partial order planner in 
Ruby.  However, that project was due today and has been submitted 
already, so feel free to offer pointers if you can, as I am interested 
in improving it.

Also, I wasn't sure how to do this post, since I'm not in the habit of 
posting unsolicited links to my blog on mailing lists.  However, the 
entire thing was really long (I felt too long for email), so I posted it 
to my blog so as to not write a book on the list =).  Therefore, I 
decided to go with the [ANN] header to warn people, but also I wanted 
others to know I was asking for help as well.  I'm not sure about the 
social norms regarding something like this, so please forgive me if I've 
broken them.

Anyway, the post is at 
http://www.codeodor.com/index.cfm/2007/5/4/Constructing-a-POP-Domain-Specific-Language-in-Ruby/1173 
and it describes my attempt at creating a partial order planner in Ruby.

Specifically, I wanted to ask 3 questions/favors:

1) I'd love a critique on and comments about how to improve my use of 
Ruby.  I've been using it for several months, but I'm sure there are 
ways I can improve it (my style and usage of the language).
2) For anyone who is interested or has knowledge on the subject, can you 
spot any weaknesses or identify areas of improvement in the program as 
implemented?
3) Is there any interest in the community in seeing this evolve into a 
real project?

Thanks for your help,
Sam