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Compiler Construction with Ruby and Racc at RubyConf

Well hey there, buddy! As you may remember from my previous post, I’m a bit of a programming language nerd wannabe. That hasn’t changed, but I wanted to share with you a nice little tool for messing around with compiler construction in Ruby. I write lots of little toy, throwaway compilers. It’s a sort of [...]

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Inside Python and PHP at OSCON 2012

Can I tell you guys something? Great. Thanks. You’re so swell. My name is Tom and I’m addicted to compilers. This is the precautionary tale of of how I got hooked. I started learning Python towards the end of my high school education, around the (CPython) 2.2/2.3 days. Back then, you couldn’t use try/except/finally in the [...]

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