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Spreadsheet Formula Parsing
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Creating the Golfcart Programming Language - Andrew Healey
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| | Writing an interpreter from scratch.
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Regexl: A High Level Language For Regex | bloeys
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| | In 'Thought 2: Regex is Like Assembly' I wondered why we are still doing regex in this kind of hard to understand, symbolic way, when we have already invented high level programming languages. There is no reason regex can't be written as clearly as any other programming language we use today. I thought doing this would be an interesting project, and so I came up with Regexl, a high level language for writing regex, that can be used as a simple library.
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Ahmed Hossam
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| | The lexical analyzer (lexer) takes a stream of characters and produces a stream of names, keywords, and punctuation marks; it discards white space and comments between the tokens. Lexical tokens have types in any programming language, example: ID foo, x, n14 NUM 73, 0, 082 REAL 3.14, 10., 1e9, 0.5 COMMA , NOTEQ != LPAREN ( RPAREN ) Punctuation tokens such as IF, VOID , RETURN constructed from alphabetic characters are called reserved words and, in most languages, cannot be used as identifiers.
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Getting started with GDB - Abstract Expression
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| Most programmers prefer to write code over debugging it. Unfortunately, code breaks a lot more often than we would like and it often breaks in situations that are hard to debug. Therefore, an essential skill as a programmer is to know how to debug your code (and that of others). When facing our first bug...