Friday, May 9, 2008

Smpl Development Has Begun!

Well, after nearly 4 years of (both technology and market) research, we are finally starting development on the product we set out to build so many years ago.

Our grand ideas of storing all product development information in a single database, providing a word processor-like interface to this database, allowing abstraction across all stored information, and transforming the information into code or other artifacts have been set aside.

The real world has humbled us. However, it has also brought out the best in us. We have been squeezed to create exactly and only what is necessary. We're calling it a Simple Modeling and Processing Language, or Smpl for short. It is a textual domain specific modeling language and associated translation based compiler.

It will be thin, light, simple, and yet powerful. Imagine Microsoft DSL Tools or MetaCase MetaEdit without all of the diagram and GUI overhead. It is text--so, yes, it will integrate with all of your existing development tools and processes. You will be able to use it in preprocessor mode, allowing you to smoothly transition from a traditional manual coding approach to full domain specific development.

We are confident you'll like what you see. The new web site will be coming along shortly, along with a two page introduction to Smpl technology. Development is moving forward. Alpha release is expected late 2008.