Very long ago ;)
- first ideas for code generator for automated generation of BOOPSI classes. Tries with awk and awk-simulating programs

1994 Still long ago ;)
- built a simple template expander to build an internal variables management for XDME.

1996 - old generator
- Started NyktOP as a textbased framework of templates to support myself writing a bigger C++ project (RODEO/II). (started w/ awk, then reused the old template expander)
- This support should cover the complete generation thats also done by MOOSE, but unfortunately this is more getting a collection of hacked and unmaintainable templates than a framework.

1997 - old generator
- finished RODEO/II
- the template based code generators are now quite complete, but the system is still (more than ever before) something like a collection of hacks.

end 1997 - old generator
- Tries to rewrite the existing templates with underlined keywords (in vane, discontinued)

spring 1998 - nykditor
- While hacking a statemachine-editor (hey, is all, that I do hacking?) got the idea to restart NyktOP with other languages support and to reuse the editor for model editing.

august 1998 - nykditor / nyktop-tcl
- support library for tcl as part of nykditor.

fall 1998 - old generator
- TCL generator in old .pre format; trying to keep the editor generic in order to reuse it with other duties.
- First tries to support perl

end 1998 - nykditor
- statemachine editor basically functional. editor is now reusable also with pseudo-moose notation and netz-notation for "semantische netze". First tries to make parts of the editor oo.

start 1999 - nykditor
- added basics of a simple eer-config for editor. (saw the notation in the db- school book of a friend.

early 1999 - nykditor
- since the statemachine data model must be reused in Smalltalk, multiple inheritance is a nono - hey, U've seen that really early

99-05-01 - generator
- perl based generator started: perl-generator.

99-05-0* - nyktop-perl
- perl support library fixed.

99-05-06 - nykditor
- changed the data-modell to aggregation instead of inheritance. I.e. Data object and Gfx object are now separated. Old configurations don't work any more - U need a complete data model for every configuration now). Note, that elder slang files don't work with the new data format, since slang structure = class hierarchy

99-05-10 - generator
- tcl-generator moved from .pre to perlbased generator

99-05-15 - generator
- file-split: parser & separate code generators;
smalltalk generator added.

99-05-17 - generator
- gperf generator added

99-05-23 - nyktop-perl
- added simple modules to allow perl-style
"use nyktop::class(classname);
use nyktop::attribute(attribute,type);"
instead of calling the commands.

99-05-22 - web page
- Web pages stated

99-05-25 - *
- disclaimers added

99-05-27 - generator
- pre-generator added. export to old template based generator now possible.

99-05-30 - nykditor
- changed editor class names;
- States component is working again

99-05-31 - nykditor
- Moose config is working again

99-05-31 - nyktop-tcl lib
- now runtime generation of access methods and of instance functions. oo notation is now usable (and its a bit faster that old procedural notation)

99-06-02 - web page
- minor changes; added parts of RODEO/II documentation, which describe the the old .pre-based code-generator (german only)

99-06-08 - nyktop-tcl lib
- speed up in access methods (direct var access instead of *ViaHandle)

99-06-10 - nykditor
- textPos; context menus
- major reduction of "modality"

99-06-11 - generator
- added fromSlang.pl to import MiniMoose slang files.

99-06-12 - nykditor
- Patterner config added (old ered- and netz- configs still not updated, since noone uses em)
- moose renamed to minimoose
- started rewriting gui components with vtcl.

99-06-13 - nyktop-tcl
- due to the fact, that reading slang-files is a pain with interpreting languages (12 secs for 50 objects in tcl), I've added a fast-dump command. This writes the objects database as tcl-set commands; this file format is definitively _not_ portable to other NyktOP supported languages, thus its usage is strongly disencouraged (but it is 5 (write) to 50 (read) times faster than slang-I/O (about 1/3 sec for 50 objects, almost zero time)) ;)

99-06-13 - web page
- minor changes;
- Added history.html, html.tar.gz

99-06-14 - nykditor
- added line decor
- major restructuring in order to make replacements work (bindings still need update)
- nyktop-tcl got support for "temp objects"

99-06-15 - nykditor
major changes in file structure to prepare ongoing switch to vtcl-based gui

99-07-16 - nyktop-tcl
added support for lex-generated scanner (c-module)

99-08-01 - nykditor
vtcl based gui now being used in states & minimooose

99-08-03 - nyktop-tcl
fixed a bad bug in dcoI* - obviously that methods had never worked

99-08-05 - nykditor
vtcl-based gui should now truly support zooming (may be some oddities remain) (nykditor.tcl should be rewritten asap completely)

99-08-05 - web page
updated the html pages a bit

99-08-20 - nykditor
Bugfix in methods: 'center' overwrote an attribute name. Thus delete did not work in the recent version.

Just for fun (decor for a friend's thesis): another more classical Entity Relationship configuration (no generator support).

99-08-22 - generator
Just for fun: a Visual Basic (or vba?) code generator. (only for models w/out inheritance at all)

00-02-19 - generator
(Sorry for the long gap ... had some exams).

Added a conversion of 'gen.html.tplt' and some rough conversion of 'gen.[Ch].tplt' called 'htmlcc' (html documentation of cc sources) and 'cc' (cc sources).

Started some restructuring in the generators area: Output is now sent through a command instead working on files directly. Started some sort of OO interface to the '.input' file's structure. (Still not yet finished; furthermore preparing the step from 'long coded' generators to 'distributed' generators)

The generator modules 'gperf', 'htmlcc', 'idl', 'java', 'perl', 'pgsql', 'pre', 'st', 'tcl' and 'vb' do generate now w/out major problems. The generated code however (not usable at all)... Code of the generator modules 'htmlcc', 'perl', 'pre' and 'tcl' has been tested. It is surely not perfect, but it is working.

00-03-02 - generator
Added a basic Python code generator and prepared initial python runtime support library. (slang writer is ok, slang reader is to be finished yet)

00-03-02 - web page
minor updates in sources, index, tgz into subdir

00-03-05 - generator
Added a basic sql3 generator. now we should start implementing support libs ;)

00-03-24 - nyktop-perl runtime lib
started rewriting slangio.pm (more in a oo way - the python solution was just too nice)

00-03-30 - nykditor
minor bugfixes in callback: redraw did not deallocate prior instances of the temp decor dots. (annoying especially in company with .fdumps)

00-04-20 - nyktop-python runtime lib
First steps of a generic XML reader.

00-04-2x - generator
separate perl generator for immediate code generation. (no need for the nyktop library).

00-05-05 - generator
Added a basic XML DTD generator (and also a python module to read some kind of xml files). However many many constructs will lead to 'illegal' DTDs (XML has some very senseless restrictions like only global !ELEMENTs and limited #PCDATA).

00-05-1* - generator
split generator.pl into frontend.pl and support_input. thus we should be able to reuse support_input for the framer project and frontend.pl for slang files.
added support modules basics.pm for some common initialization.

00-05-1* - generator
made idl generator basically work. Since however we have no working CC generator, the generator is quite useless I fear.

00-05-1* - framer
Since the current generators every time consist of only one great function, they tend to be spaghetti code. They would get much more flexible if we could cut them into little pieces that are loosely bunched together. For this purpose we are starting the framer sub-project

00-06-0* - generator
Added a basic Javascript code generator (divided into two parts: one (js) for te runtime structures and one (js_back) to prepare editor interfaces).

00-06-1* - generator
Added a basic CGI interface code generator based on js_back to prepare default editor interfaces).

00-06-28 - html
Updated history, changed index.html's encoding to utf-8 (now greek should B readable).

00-07-12 - framer
First framer based generator: 'xol'. Now we need a frameweork around to support definition of new patterns.

00-07-27 - generator
Added framer/tclcgi.pm: tcl-based cgi-binaries
Added generator/tclcgi.pm: tcl-based cgi-binaries (together with sql-interface).

00-07-28 - *
Changes in distribution scripts (I did not notice, that '.gz' contains file creation timestamp).
New archive web (more like an example). Moved tcl-slang into tcl.

00-08-10 - html2cgi
Added a new subproject html2cgi: a converter from html to cgi code (currently supported outputs: tcl)

00-08-2* - html2cgi
html2tcl is quite usable now;

00-08-28 - generator
Tried to make delphi language support working (used fpk as compiler). connections and circular uses cause the compiler to break; I fear this is a weakness of O-Pascal.

up to 01-04-14 - generator
Obviously nobody uses nyktop - I still haven't got any bug-report ...
Its been some time around now: finished my exams, left my flat in kaiserslautern; started a new job in frankfurt (still searching for a new flat, thus my private net.access is nearby non-existant)...
ok, in the meanwhile i've added several new generator modules; they are quite closely connected to my current job (vshop) support_pseudo.pm has got some improvements to support these modules and some external functions.
Some other components have been created just for fun and have not been checked nor tested at all: TODO: In the next time I should think about usercode, methods and a working pattern system, since I've got a real lot of method-patterns at least for ccministl.pm (outTo-, getFrom- and/or checkFrom- for -SQL/DBResult, -Form/Parameters an/or -Applet/RInfo). And something like generator-inheritance wouldn't be bad either: the different cc-modules have very much in common.