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Forum: Other Scripting Languages Apr 22nd, 2008, 10:08 PM
Replies: 1
Views: 189
Posted By Mad_guy
Re: Good Regex Tool

http://www.txt2re.com/
http://osteele.com/tools/reanimator/

The second one is excellent as it creates a graphical representation of the regular expression in the form of a FSA (Finite-State...
Forum: Coder's Corner Lounge Mar 29th, 2008, 8:01 PM
Replies: 61
Views: 2,151
Posted By Mad_guy
Re: What have you been up to?

Currently I've been reading a bit on garbage collection (great book I got,) and so for the next project of mine I'm aiming at writing a garbage collector that you could use for something like a...
Forum: Coder's Corner Lounge Mar 21st, 2008, 8:52 PM
Replies: 8
Views: 238
Posted By Mad_guy
Re: Version Control Software

I am a huge fan of distributed revision control; in this vein there are a couple of options:

1. Git
2. Mercurial
3. Darcs
4. Bazaar
(and some others)

Personally I have pretty much moved to git for...
Forum: Coder's Corner Lounge Jan 30th, 2008, 9:27 PM
Replies: 49
Views: 1,538
Posted By Mad_guy
Re: when did you start programming?

I started when I was roughly 12, with PHP and a little C. I moved to perl for a while afterwords, and god only knows how I went through game development, win32 and am now at home with functional...
Forum: C++ Jan 15th, 2008, 6:19 PM
Replies: 22
Views: 690
Posted By Mad_guy
Re: c++ vs. java

Personally I have a distaste for Java because I feel it is unnecessarily verbose (see this post (http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2007/12/codes-worst-enemy.html) for more on that) and rigid. I prefer...
Forum: Coder's Corner Lounge Dec 19th, 2007, 11:01 PM
Replies: 14
Views: 340
Posted By Mad_guy
Re: The Acid2 Test

http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/2007/12/19/internet-explorer-8-and-acid2-a-milestone.aspx
Forum: Coder's Corner Lounge Dec 17th, 2007, 8:19 PM
Replies: 13
Views: 419
Posted By Mad_guy
Re: Anyone played portal yet?

Definitely a good game, but short. But hey, Orange box is a damn steal in reality.

Note: when I play games these days I look for (hopefully) anywhere from 50 to above hours in gameplay time. These...
Forum: Other Programming Languages Dec 11th, 2007, 3:46 PM
Replies: 1
Views: 232
Posted By Mad_guy
Re: Setting up INTERCAL on Windows

When I went diving with INTERCAL, I liked jintercal (I too had some setup trouble with the standard distro):

http://spiff.de/jintercal.html
Forum: Show Off Your Open Source Projects Dec 2nd, 2007, 12:36 PM
Replies: 4
Views: 429
Posted By Mad_guy
Re: Small compiler in Haskell

I too, like my code generator even if it is somewhat inefficient. It is simple enough to the point I think anybody who wanted to look at it could, and understand with minimal hassle.

Luckily, harpy...
Forum: Show Off Your Open Source Projects Nov 29th, 2007, 8:55 PM
Replies: 4
Views: 429
Posted By Mad_guy
Re: Small compiler in Haskell

I looked at Parsec, which, don't get me wrong is nice (used it for my IRC parser and although I scrapped it the BNF transfered to actual code quite nicely,) but I figured I'd get more in a...
Forum: Show Off Your Open Source Projects Nov 22nd, 2007, 9:08 PM
Replies: 4
Views: 429
Posted By Mad_guy
Small compiler in Haskell

This is just something I hacked on for fun but I thought some people might find interesting.

Over the past 2 days or so I've written a small compiler for numeric expressions (i.e. "1 + 12 *42 -...
Forum: Other Programming Languages Oct 26th, 2007, 9:18 PM
Replies: 17
Views: 824
Posted By Mad_guy
Re: F# coming to a Visual Studio near you!

Ah, but it does allow those who love functional programming (like myself) to give back to those who use typical .NET languages on a regular basis, in the form of a supported and fairly well...
Forum: Existing Project Development Oct 21st, 2007, 3:36 PM
Replies: 4
Views: 369
Posted By Mad_guy
Re: Haskell: IRC bot

So, after ridiculous amounts of my work being prolonged, I've finally gotten around to getting to the next version of my irc bot, 0.3.

You may be wondering what happened to 0.2; you can think of it...
Forum: Existing Project Development Aug 14th, 2007, 8:44 PM
Replies: 4
Views: 369
Posted By Mad_guy
Thanks for the feedback, I was beginning to think...

Thanks for the feedback, I was beginning to think my bot wouldn't attract any replies.

The plugin system is actually remarkably simple in terms of just loading and compiling the code for use by the...
Forum: Existing Project Development Aug 12th, 2007, 11:49 PM
Replies: 4
Views: 369
Posted By Mad_guy
Haskell: IRC bot

Over the past couple of days I've been working on an IRC bot in haskell (http://haskell.org). I believe it to be ready for an 0.1 release, and so here it...
Forum: C# Jul 18th, 2007, 5:36 AM
Replies: 10
Views: 345
Posted By Mad_guy
You may also want to read N. Wirth's book...

You may also want to read N. Wirth's book Compiler Construction (http://www.oberon.ethz.ch/WirthPubl/CBEAll.pdf)
Forum: Coder's Corner Lounge Jul 18th, 2007, 4:51 AM
Replies: 6
Views: 222
Posted By Mad_guy
Git has gitk which is amazingly useful in itself....

Git has gitk which is amazingly useful in itself. Granted it might not be as 'pretty' as TortoiseSVN, but it's really nice in itself.

Mercurial has a Tortoise-like GUI in the works for windows,...
Forum: Coder's Corner Lounge Jul 17th, 2007, 12:52 PM
Replies: 6
Views: 222
Posted By Mad_guy
The basic idea behind a distributed system is...

The basic idea behind a distributed system is everybody has a copy of the repository. Every repository may be different; this is not unusual, generally these repositories will be in this sort of an...
Forum: Coder's Corner Lounge Jul 17th, 2007, 7:00 AM
Replies: 6
Views: 222
Posted By Mad_guy
Version control

I'm just wondering off the top of my head: what version control systems do you guys use? At work, at home; I'm awfully curious as to see what you guys use.

Personally I use darcs (http://darcs.net)...
Forum: Coder's Corner Lounge Jun 20th, 2007, 12:12 PM
Replies: 32
Views: 781
Posted By Mad_guy
I might just be stupid or something, but I fail...

I might just be stupid or something, but I fail to see how pointing out some 'lol's and smilies serves as a proper differentiator between a joke and something serious. On the internet, mind you.

But...
Forum: Other Programming Languages Jun 3rd, 2007, 4:34 PM
Replies: 25
Views: 999
Posted By Mad_guy
This is just back to the previous topic, I found...

This is just back to the previous topic, I found the easiest way to understand Monad Transformers is a basic Onion Layer analogy.

Essentially, you have your monad x, and a second monad y. x is your...
Forum: Coder's Corner Lounge May 23rd, 2007, 10:29 PM
Replies: 22
Views: 367
Posted By Mad_guy
I recieve several hundred email's a day, so I had...

I recieve several hundred email's a day, so I had to get off of Gmail's actual web interface, since the organization kind of got hectic.

I'm now a user of mutt (http://www.mutt.org/) for my mail. Of...
Forum: Coder's Corner Lounge May 23rd, 2007, 10:22 PM
Replies: 30
Views: 639
Posted By Mad_guy
Muleshoe? Plainview, here. Lubbock's close by,...

Muleshoe? Plainview, here. Lubbock's close by, but lack of transportation kind of impairs traveling to and fro. So I guess I'm somewhat 'stuck.' :/
Forum: C++ May 22nd, 2007, 1:53 AM
Replies: 5
Views: 164
Posted By Mad_guy
iirc, your compiler will generally pad your...

iirc, your compiler will generally pad your structures to an 8-byte boundry, i.e. it'll pad it 'up to' 16.

When I manipulated the PE header, the general way I did it was just make a pointer to the...
Forum: Coder's Corner Lounge May 20th, 2007, 3:00 PM
Replies: 6
Views: 194
Posted By Mad_guy
Your decision needs to be based on, well, what...

Your decision needs to be based on, well, what you're doing, naturally. I would say get your design for the messenger client 'up and running' before you make decisions like what language to do it in;...
Forum: Coder's Corner Lounge May 17th, 2007, 11:41 PM
Replies: 30
Views: 639
Posted By Mad_guy
The great plains of Texas.

The great plains of Texas.
Forum: Coder's Corner Lounge May 14th, 2007, 12:31 PM
Replies: 10
Views: 303
Posted By Mad_guy
For source code control, I typically use a...

For source code control, I typically use a distributed Version control system (dVCS) solution such as darcs (http://darcs.net) or git (http://git.or.cz/). darcs is my personal favorite as it's...
Forum: Show Off Your Open Source Projects Apr 16th, 2007, 10:16 PM
Replies: 0
Views: 107
Posted By Mad_guy
Packet Sniffer

My tutorial on writing a packet sniffer in haskell (http://austin.youareinferior.net/?q=node/24) is done with the fruits of my labours being hsns: the haskell network...
Forum: Show Off Your Open Source Projects Apr 14th, 2007, 3:14 PM
Replies: 6
Views: 233
Posted By Mad_guy
:) Thanks. I just updated the code and it now...

:) Thanks.

I just updated the code and it now includes Command line options, TCPdump filters, and it formats the packets nicely. And at only 170 lines of code, that's not bad. You can check the...
Forum: Show Off Your Open Source Projects Apr 13th, 2007, 11:57 PM
Replies: 6
Views: 233
Posted By Mad_guy
Thanks for the tip. On the second piece of code...

Thanks for the tip. On the second piece of code though, you can't directly convert a Word8 to a Char. Example:

[austin@continuum ~]$ ghci
___ ___ _
/ _ \ /\ /\/ __(_)
/ /_\// /_/ / / ...
Forum: Show Off Your Open Source Projects Apr 13th, 2007, 2:28 PM
Replies: 6
Views: 233
Posted By Mad_guy
The writer monad was merely a challenge, really....

The writer monad was merely a challenge, really. Plus since the Writer monad is particularly accustomed to accumulating results over the lifetime of a computation, and given the way the blacklist...
Forum: Show Off Your Open Source Projects Apr 10th, 2007, 9:48 PM
Replies: 6
Views: 233
Posted By Mad_guy
Haskell tutorial: writing a blacklist engine using the Writer Monad

I just got done the other day writing a tutorial on the Writer monad as I think I finally understand Monads ultimately (or as far as I know,) and I was wondering what some of you would think of...
Forum: Existing Project Development Mar 16th, 2007, 4:10 PM
Replies: 2
Views: 282
Posted By Mad_guy
Thanks for the comments. :> Last night I was...

Thanks for the comments. :>

Last night I was talking to a friend and decided to totally rewrite it. Renaming it to version 1.0 was pretty much obligatory. The new version is substantially different....
Forum: Existing Project Development Mar 15th, 2007, 8:02 PM
Replies: 2
Views: 282
Posted By Mad_guy
Haskell fun: hsh -- a busybox spinoff in haskell

So I was trying to figure out exactly what to do with Haskell, as I wanted to experiance the language. I read Don Stewarts excellent "Programming Haskell" 3 part series and it lead me to try and...
Forum: Other Programming Languages Feb 3rd, 2007, 3:40 PM
Replies: 3
Views: 260
Posted By Mad_guy
Thanks, I've seen the customary "Scheme/Lisp in...

Thanks, I've seen the customary "Scheme/Lisp in Haskell" tutorials before, including that one, but I couldn't ever find that one again. :p

I also found some of the "Programming Haskell" tutorials on...
Forum: Other Programming Languages Feb 2nd, 2007, 10:43 PM
Replies: 3
Views: 260
Posted By Mad_guy
Haskell ideas?

I've been tinkering and playing with Haskell recently and am really liking it, but I'm trying to think of a program or something to write in Haskell to try things. I've done things like guards, list...
Forum: C# Jan 31st, 2007, 12:47 AM
Replies: 28
Views: 707
Posted By Mad_guy
Not particularly. Moving from a HLL to another...

Not particularly. Moving from a HLL to another HLL that might be in a different paradigm, or even support different models of the same concept can be very different (ex: Erlang is a highly concurrent...
Forum: C++ Jan 31st, 2007, 12:01 AM
Replies: 15
Views: 499
Posted By Mad_guy
Technically speaking, Disassembly is, by itself,...

Technically speaking, Disassembly is, by itself, an undecidable problem. Decompilation is a much harder subject, although strides twords a solution have been made (Google "DCC decompiler" and...
Forum: Coder's Corner Lounge Jan 25th, 2007, 12:18 AM
Replies: 42
Views: 792
Posted By Mad_guy
This moniker I have on the forum was inspired by...

This moniker I have on the forum was inspired by an old game I used to play.

For the most part, I go by a new one, "thoughtpolice," which was inspired from 1984 (either that or on forums I'm more...
Forum: Coder's Corner Lounge Nov 27th, 2006, 9:51 PM
Replies: 12
Views: 258
Posted By Mad_guy
I'll just advise this first, I suppose: give C a...

I'll just advise this first, I suppose: give C a shot. Read "The C Programming Language, 2nd Edition" if you want an excellent book on it; a good language to learn and chances are high you might use...
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