While implementing Owlscript I didnt want to crowd the grammar by having two different types of control flow which only differed by their syntax. This is the case in C-like languages were for loops serve more as syntactic sugaring of the while loop con

Since their introduction in 1978, Red/Black Trees have gone on to become the dominant ordered collection based container. Be it for symbol tables or sets, imperative or functional Red/Black Trees can be found everywhere. Unlike AVL tree's whic

Virtually every modern programming language capable of writing non-trivial programs is expected to support Lexical scoping by default. Some legacy programming languages, and even a few modern scripting languages still make use of dynamic scoping (Perl

For todays post I'm going to go in a bit of a different direction than I normally do. After watching a pretty interesting video (in my humble opinion, anyway) on Pascals Triangle, I found myself surfing through wikipedia (as one does) and ultimately ar

MGCLex is a "Lexer Generator" in the spirit of Flex or ScanGen. Input is in the form of a specification file containing a list of Token-rule pairs, 1 per line. Each pair consists of a regular expression pattern and an identifier for the pattern. MGCLex