Search Results for "construction"

Wuffs is a memory-safe, zero-dependency library and domain-specific language for writing high-performance image codecs and related parsers. Instead of trusting ad-hoc C, Wuffs code is compiled to C with strong bounds, integer, and state checks inserted by construction, aiming to eliminate whole classes of security bugs without a heavy runtime. The design prioritizes predictable performance: decoders avoid dynamic allocation by default, return explicit “short read” signals, and run well in streaming or sandbox-free environments. The project ships battle-tested, CPU-friendly implementations for common image/container formats and bit-twiddly primitives like Huffman and checksum routines. ...

Build Your Own Lisp is the source repository for an educational book that teaches C by guiding readers through the creation of a small Lisp-like programming language. The course starts with C fundamentals and an interactive prompt before introducing parsing and language design. Later chapters build evaluation, error handling, S-expressions, Q-expressions, variables, functions, conditionals, strings, and a standard library. The finished interpreter stays under roughly 1,000 lines of C code....

...Achieving this requires delicate handling of language-specific quoting, escaping, and code-gen tricks, making it a showcase of language theory, compiler insight, and meta-programming prowess. It is largely a playful, academic exercise exploring the limits of language interoperability and quine construction rather than a utility tool.

...There is nothing like        name == ... ;        HIDE ... IN  ... END    Language construction is done with combinators.   *  The meaning of the words is different in many cases.