Re: FF Book in german

["Jens Ch. Restemeier" <jenschrr@post.uni-bielefeld.de>]

Alex Hunter wrote:
> 
> > From: Jens Ch. Restemeier <jenschrr@post.uni-bielefeld.de>
> > To: Werner D. Streidt <wstreidt@bigfoot.de>
> > Cc: ff@aurdev.com
> > Subject: Re: FF Book in german
> > Date: Friday, February 26, 1999 3:42 PM
> >
> > Hi !
> >
> > > of course, he is very demotivated that there won't be any Mac-FiFO or Mac-FM
> > > (at least not planned till now).
> >
> > Well, "The source is out there"(tm). It can't be THAT difficult hacking
> > a MacOS framework around the userfilter engine.
> >
> > Jens
> 
> Umm, just to be clear about this: The FM source is NOT public domain,
> and is NOT based on the Gimp userfilter.  :-)

I was NOT going to say that anybody stole my code. I think there is
nothing magic about implementing a parser for FF-style functions, i'd
say somebody who studies Computer Science and takes lessions on Building
Compilers (nothing unusal) should be able to write a parser with the
knowledge of the first few lessons. That's what I did. And AFAIK FM is a
compiler, isn't it ? UF is only an interpreter.

What I mean is this: Mac-FF has different limits, and with UF somebody
could write a FF-clone that can handle Win-FF filters 1:1, and is
exensible with new functions. And it could work as a basis for
plugin-managers with the new MacOS supporting shared libraries.

Jens