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Luna analysis Intro (details pending solution to posting code)
I've been worrying about implementing compilers and interpreters for a long time. As a platform for hands-on R&D, nothing beats a listener-based implementation, where one enters statements and expressions from the console and files directly into the...

Posted Friday, February 20, 2004 12:58 PM by brianbec | with no comments

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Teaser: Sending Email from a Script
I'm going to be blogging about how to write a scripting engine in the CLR. As a teaser, let me show you what I can do with the scripter I've already ginned up. There's not a whole lot of effort expended in creating this scripter, and it has some warts...

Posted Tuesday, February 17, 2004 4:51 PM by brianbec | with no comments

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Generalized Grimm's Law versus Precision
Grimm's Law documents certain technical points of language evolution. It notes a general softening of consonants and a general blurring of distinctions over time. Latin 'pater' becomes English 'father'. The formerly different consonants 'bh' and 'b' become...

Posted Tuesday, February 17, 2004 11:59 AM by brianbec | 2 comment(s)

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Why Script?
Just in case the case needs to be made… Why bother scripting in the first place? Why not just write a program to solve your problems? A scripter is a program, of course, just one that accepts programming input from a console or a file. Scripting is a...

Posted Sunday, February 15, 2004 12:51 PM by brianbec | with no comments

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How to Script, Help me Test, Help my Math
Three quick things this morning. TOPIC 1: HOW TO SCRIPT. You may see my first post below on extending scripters with dynamically loaded libraries via wrapper generation, or superglue. Such is very much more interesting nowadays in the presence of CLR...

Posted Sunday, February 15, 2004 11:04 AM by brianbec | 1 comment(s)

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