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[StoneyJackson]

Hi @jashelio,

Tim Fossum (@fosler) mentioned that you use PLCC in your classes and had a copy of PLCC on GitLab, and so you do! I too use use PLCC in a programming languages course, and I have been maintaining another copy of PLCC on GitLab. As you are probably aware, Tim keeps a copy on https://pithon.net/. There may be other copies out there. Please let me know of them.

I wanted to let you know that I have created a new GitHub Organization, ourPLCC that I'm hoping will become a place where we can cooperatively curate PLCC and its ecosystem. The problem I'm trying to solve is that each of us has made useful changes to PLCC, but it is unclear if those changes are compatible with each other; and I selfishly want to benefit from others' hard work, and I'm willing to share mine in exchange.

Would you be interested in participating in ourPLCC?

Regards,
Stoney Jackson

[jashelio]

Stoney, Because I was reading my mail backwards, I read your GitHub invitation before I read this letter of introduction! Everything is clearer now. Yes, I would be interested in joining. However my PLCC repository really has nothing new. One student stopped working on a new feature before it was done, and my current student has moved completely away from Python and basically developed a new compiler compiler from scratch using Java with annotations. So I will not muddy the waters at this time by adding a third version. But I am interested in trying to figure out how to coordinate. I am not good at branching and merging in GitHub. I also have a course I'm running on line through the end of June, so I may not have much time until then. Where do you work? Can you say a bit about your class? Thanks for inviting me! Jim Heliotis

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On May 14, 2020, at 1:40 PM, Stoney Jackson ***@***.***> wrote: Hi @jashelio, Tim Fossum ***@***.***) mentioned that you use PLCC in your classes and had a copy of PLCC on GitLab, and so you do! I too use use PLCC in a programming languages course, and I have been maintaining another copy of PLCC on GitLab. As you are probably aware, Tim keeps a copy on https://pithon.net/. There may be other copies out there. Please let me know of them. I wanted to let you know that I have created a new GitHub Organization, ourPLCC that I'm hoping will become a place where we can cooperatively curate PLCC and its ecosystem. The problem I'm trying to solve is that each of us has made useful changes to PLCC, but it is unclear if those changes are compatible with each other; and I selfishly want to benefit from others' hard work, and I'm willing to share mine in exchange. Would you be interested in participating in ourPLCC? Regards, Stoney Jackson — You are receiving this because you were mentioned. Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub, or unsubscribe.

[StoneyJackson]

Hi Jim, Sorry, I should have introduced myself before. I've been a professor at Western New England University for about 16 years (https://wne.edu/~hjackson and https://www1.wne.edu/arts-and-sciences/faculty.cfm?uid=203). Besides a Programming Languages course, I regular teach a Software Development course, a Senior Capstone, and will be returning to a year-long Web Development sequence starting in Fall. Two years ago I taught a special arrangements Programming Languages course with a single student, and used it to give Tim's PLCC and course materials a test drive. I liked it so much that I used it for a full course in the following year (https://gitlab.com/wne-csit/cs351-f19). This coming fall will be the third time that I have used his materials. I've made some adjustments to PLCC in a GitLab repository ( https://gitlab.com/StoneyJackson/plcc). But then I realized that I would not easily be able to use new changes that Tim has recently developed. So that's why I'm hoping to combine our development efforts. I'm happy to help out with GitHub and git. Maybe after you are done with your semester we can arrange a time for you, Tim, and I can meet on Zoom and go over some basics. Regards, Stoney Jackson (he, him, his) Professor of CS&IT Western New England University