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
assembly - light knowledge of PowerPC, IA-32, 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, Lisp including Emacs Lisp, Logo, 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

I have significantly contributed to the following wikipedia pages:

Todo[edit]

programming language heavily edit
magnetic media - bring in content from floppy disk disk storage et al

Chat[edit]

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".

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