[Fortress-interest] editing fortress code

[Eric Lavigne]

> Anyway i looked at the code, it looks very clear, of good quality, i would
> love to help out but unfortunately i am still a college student that does
> not know much about creating your own parser/compiler, next semester i am
> going to have compiler class perhaps after that I can provide some
> assistance in coding some tools, or libraries.

I learn faster by helping with open source projects than by taking
classes. Decide what you want to work on, find a book or website to
introduce yourself to the basic skills, and dive in.

> By the way this might be off
> topic, i still can't read the kind of people that are members of this list
> (distant academic people, or friendly next door helpful programmers), but

I am academic, but next door is still a slight possibility. Do you
live in Gainesville?

> are there any good books or white papers that will make me understand all
> this HPC stuff, i would love to help code up some answers but i really don't
> understand the problems, so i need to do that first.

HPC is like any other kind of programming problem: (1) Make it work,
(2) make it right, (3) make it fast. The only difference is that HPC
programmers end up putting more effort into that last step. Fortress
isn't there yet.

I'm guessing that the best way to help Fortress now would be core
libraries. Just read the specification, and work on any commands in
the specification that don't work yet. No school courses necessary,
just a little reading.