User:Drj
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Professional software engineer in the video game industry. skeptic (to some extent, don't assume much by that statement). Avid weekend rock climber. Interested in many things.
I know how to bind books, repair bikes, punt, configure sendmail, and other things too. I really like finding primary sources.
Expertise:
- C programming language (12 years, 7 professionally)
- AWK - am currently writing my own implementation
- assembler - light knowledge of PowerPC, IA32, Z80, Alpha AXP, SPARC (in best to worst knowledge order).
- UNIX - I run and maintain a few FreeBSD systems.
- memory management - I used to write garbage collectors for a living.
- RFC 822 - wrote parser as part of (now shelved) project to write an MUA.
- vi
- ed
- sed
- unix shell
- rock climbing (lead on sight in UK at grade VS-HVS)
- mathematics - I have a degree in it, but it's all mostly forgotten.
- programming language - both implementation and design, and smattering of knowledge of a large number of languages. Ones not mentioned already (random order): Forth, icon programming language, lisp including emacs lisp, logo programming language, ML, perl, lua, PostScript, scheme.
- video games. I play them as well as write them. My top five games are probably: NetHack, super bomberman, super mario 64, goldeneye 007, the legend of zelda: ocarina of time. tetris and dr mario deserve an honourable mention too.
I'll add more as I think of them.
Email me at drj@pobox.com (mailto:drj@pobox.com)
I have significantly contributed to the following wikipedia pages:
- BCPL
- Boston Tea Party
- Computer memory garbage collection
- Gulf War
- Lisp
- LR parser
- Missile
- Rock climbing
- Telnet
Todo
- programming language heavily edit
- magnetic media - bring in content from floppy disk disk storage et al
Done
- cruise missile - merge (somebody else did it).
Chat
Ah, cool! Another book binder. I've been meaning to put up a page about that some day. --Pinkunicorn
Re LALR_parser ... yeah I'd grabbed the 1st edition Dragon Book. A later copy is around here somewhere, but you would not want to see my pile-o-books library scheme. Terminology evolves, c'est la vie. --User:Hornlo
Well I guess, but I'd still like to know what people are likely to mean by "LALR parser".