User:Drj

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

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Todo

• progamming language[?] heavily edit
• magnetic media[?] - bring in content from floppy disk disk storage et al

Done

• cruise missile - merge (somebody else did it).

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Chat

Ah, cool! Another book binder. I've been meaning to put up a page about that some day. --Pinkunicorn

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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. --loh

Well I guess, but I'd still like to know what people are likely to mean by "LALR parser".

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