Re: Syntax trees from strings

[Juan Pablo Carbajal]

On Fri, Jun 28, 2013 at 1:41 PM, Søren Hauberg <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hi All
>
> I just had a very interesting chat with a researcher doing machine learning 
> in collaboration with Coursera, trying to build large scale grading systems. 
> They are working on tools for grading the quality of a code submission by 
> students (i.e. a student submit a piece of code as an answer to an exercise, 
> and now they want to grade that piece of code).
>
> As they use Octave as their main teaching language they also hook into the 
> Octave code to build these grading systems. In particular they use the Octave 
> parser to generate syntax trees. Right now they get the code submission 
> through a database, then they write the code to a file and run the parser on 
> that file. He was curious if there are ways of to avoid writing the code to a 
> file in order to parse it. Do we have such functions?
>
> Thanks
> Søren
>

That's kind of cool. Is their development available for the community?
Are they releasing this upgrades/extensions under GPLv3 or compatible?