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+#+TITLE: Plan of the package
+#+AUTHOR: Durand
+#+DATE: <2022-11-18 Ven 19:57>
+
+* Atomic Languages
+
+This describes the behaviours of atomic languages.  The atomic
+language consists of the null closure of any non-terminal symbol in
+the grammar, and their deriavtives by terminals and non-terminal.
+
+* Derivative Languages
+
+This is the main driving device of the algorithm.  Basically, the
+algorithm works by taking successive derivatives, according to the
+input symbol.  At each step, we calculate the derivative language.  In
+this process, we also compute some semiring value and store in a
+carrier.  The end result of the algorithm is the final semiring
+value.
+
+If one wants simply to determine if the input string belongs to the
+grammar, one chooses the semiring to be the field with two elements,
+the boolean field.  If one wants to find how many ways are there to
+derive a given input string, then one uses the semiring of natural
+numbers instead.  If one wants, moreover, to find all the possible
+ways to derive a particular input string, then one can use the
+free semiring on the set of terminals and non-terminals of the
+grammar.  Here the free semiring is the left-adjoint functor to the
+forgetful functor from the category of semirings to the category of
+sets.
+
+To be more specific, the free semiring on a set is given by sets of
+sequences of elements in the set.  The addition of the semiring is the
+set union operation, and the multiplication is taking the respective
+concatenations.
+
+** Semirings
+
+So we need a module to define the behaviours of semirings, and provide
+some common semirings implementations.  Then in the main driving force
+we can freely substitute different semirings, according to the
+particular needs.
+
+** Languages
+
+Then the main part is to define the behaviour of languages.  This
+should be easy enough, since we already have the mechanism of graphs,
+nondeterministic automata, and semirings.  All we need to do is to
+combine them together.
+
+* Testing ground
+
+I am in a strong need to test things out.  The most important one is
+to visualize each step of the derivation, in a human-friendly manner.
+I need this to examine whether my atomic languages are wrongly
+implemented, or my atomic languages are wrongly derived, or my
+understanding of the main algorithm is plain wrong.
+
+This is the main reason I started this rewrite of the package.
+