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   by esr 3y ago

   I'm still writing code and shipping releases. I have a book in progress. Yes, I've been quiet. I never really liked being Mr. Famous Guy; I did it tactically to achieve the mission of mainstreaming open source and gave it up as s
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   by esr 7y ago

   Thing is, it wasn't a rewrite. I deliberately did as dumb and literal a translation as I could because I feared that if I tried to change the code wile translating it the complexity of the job would spiral out of control. One reason th
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   by esr 17y ago

   I've written something relevent here: "Structure Is Not Meaning". http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=1387
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   by esr 17y ago

   It's a proof-of-concept. Don't get hung up on the parsing details, I expect I'm going to have to rewrite it at least twice.