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Memento Mori. I want to simply declare that the iMatix state machine generator (Libero) and cross-platform library(ies) (SMT/SFL) saved my project/company from

by ci5er 10y ago

Memento Mori. I want to simply declare that the iMatix state machine generator (Libero) and cross-platform library(ies) (SMT/SFL) saved my project/company from certain destruction in 1996. And I never had the opportunity to thank you/him/them for that. I'm a C guy, so admittedly old-fashioned, but I still use that FSM generator language more than twice/year. FSMs rock (I came from circuits) and this is the best business-language-to-compiled-software-description thing I have ever met. Thank you.

PieterH 10y ago
My pleasure. Libero and SFL were my first open source projects and I'm glad they were useful.
- ci5er 10y ago
  Sir, this is more personal than I want to get in these forums, but when I related to my mother how much you had influenced me and (frankly) saved my life and I related your situation, she cried. She said: "Can we do nothing?". My theory about this universe is that: we can do nothing - but that we can best serve by making sure that these pioneers are never forgotten. That may well be wrong. But, from a little point example, out here in the universe, I and my mother, appreciate you and love you and .... I don't know what to say.
- ci5er 10y ago
  Oh, separately. Libero rocks. That is all.
- ci5er 10y ago
  I want you to know, that at every level, for me, you were loved, received and admired. I don't know the controls of this system well enough to be able to PM you that, but you should know this... Thank you.
  - PieterH 10y ago
    :-) I appreciate it, truly.
- vidarh 10y ago
  They were great. I wrote a caching NNTP server around that time, which was manually multiplexed initially, and finding Libero and seeing how much easier it was to handle the state transitions influenced how I saw the use of code generation. I've been a fan ever since.
- bch 10y ago
  Is libero still available anywhere? All the links I'm finding are stale, leading to 404s. [edit] Found it. https://github.com/imatix/openamq https://github.com/imatix/openamq in the "./tooling/base1" dir of the historic openamq distribution.
  - PieterH 10y ago
    You might also enjoy this: http://imatix-legacy.github.io/ http://imatix-legacy.github.io/ :-)
    - bch 10y ago
      Ha! Thanks! I saw a mirror of this from a university but all the final links to sources were broken. I was curious enough I resorted to gopher to track down archaic links... the only thing I ended up with was a copy of linux-1.0.tar.bz2. [ update ] Oops -- these end-points are dead too :) Back to the scavenger hunt. q: Is there a logical successor to libero? A few of my searches took me to references to GSL... [ second update ] https://github.com/imatix-legacy https://github.com/imatix-legacy
      - PieterH 10y ago
        Yes, GSL is the successor. It's a living project on github. It is relatively easy to generate state machines in GSL, e.g. https://github.com/CodeJockey/glar150/blob/master/src/fsm_c.gsl https://github.com/CodeJockey/glar150/blob/master/src/fsm_c..... This GSL script builds a FSM that uses switch statements; the code isn't as compact as Libero produces yet it works nicely.

by ci5er 10y ago

PieterH 10y ago

My pleasure. Libero and SFL were my first open source projects and I'm glad they were useful.

ci5er 10y ago
Sir, this is more personal than I want to get in these forums, but when I related to my mother how much you had influenced me and (frankly) saved my life and I related your situation, she cried. She said: "Can we do nothing?". My theory about this universe is that: we can do nothing - but that we can best serve by making sure that these pioneers are never forgotten. That may well be wrong. But, from a little point example, out here in the universe, I and my mother, appreciate you and love you and .... I don't know what to say.
ci5er 10y ago
Oh, separately. Libero rocks. That is all.
ci5er 10y ago
I want you to know, that at every level, for me, you were loved, received and admired. I don't know the controls of this system well enough to be able to PM you that, but you should know this... Thank you.
- PieterH 10y ago
  :-) I appreciate it, truly.
vidarh 10y ago
They were great. I wrote a caching NNTP server around that time, which was manually multiplexed initially, and finding Libero and seeing how much easier it was to handle the state transitions influenced how I saw the use of code generation. I've been a fan ever since.
bch 10y ago
Is libero still available anywhere? All the links I'm finding are stale, leading to 404s. [edit] Found it. https://github.com/imatix/openamq https://github.com/imatix/openamq in the "./tooling/base1" dir of the historic openamq distribution.
- PieterH 10y ago
  You might also enjoy this: http://imatix-legacy.github.io/ http://imatix-legacy.github.io/ :-)
  - bch 10y ago
    Ha! Thanks! I saw a mirror of this from a university but all the final links to sources were broken. I was curious enough I resorted to gopher to track down archaic links... the only thing I ended up with was a copy of linux-1.0.tar.bz2. [ update ] Oops -- these end-points are dead too :) Back to the scavenger hunt. q: Is there a logical successor to libero? A few of my searches took me to references to GSL... [ second update ] https://github.com/imatix-legacy https://github.com/imatix-legacy
    - PieterH 10y ago
      Yes, GSL is the successor. It's a living project on github. It is relatively easy to generate state machines in GSL, e.g. https://github.com/CodeJockey/glar150/blob/master/src/fsm_c.gsl https://github.com/CodeJockey/glar150/blob/master/src/fsm_c..... This GSL script builds a FSM that uses switch statements; the code isn't as compact as Libero produces yet it works nicely.