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Overview Edit: this post was discussed on hacker news Some of the comments contained valuable reviews of the C code listed below. I’ve appended some edits after the original listing. I’ve been working quite with files and file systems on Linux recently. Mostly from the vantage point of either a shell or a python script. I wanted to practice coding against the Linux API, so I cracked open my copy of the Linux Programming Interface to see if I could find some useful info. [Read More]

This summer I’ve been learning a bit about programming language design. In the past, I’ve thrown together a few little programs use regular expressions to parse some simple language according to a simple context free grammars. Like any other programming newbie, I’ve also built the ubiquitous calculator or two. Back in 2017 I resolved to teach myself something about computer science. I surveyed a few computer science undergraduate programs and decided to patch together my own from online courses, docs, tutorials and textbooks. [Read More]