HackScript

Submitted by 1equals1-- on Fri, 03/05/2010 - 15:01

Who invented hack-script, and what languages were considered in the design?

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re: Hackscript

Submitted by TerribleTrioJoe on Sat, 03/06/2010 - 19:28.

johnny_heart invented it, a long time ago. He's the one to answer the second part of your question.

-TTJ

(Im in ur compilerz lolin' ur codez !)

A Brief History of HackScript

Submitted by Johnny_Heart on Sun, 03/07/2010 - 14:25.

We have a course at the University of Guelph on compiler design. The original version of HackScript was designed by one of our former developers Alex, who rebuilt a C-style language similar to that taught in the course, in LEXX & YACC.

This was good for a while, but we had some problems, e.g., '++' wasn't implemented, there were no arrays, etc.

So any ways, I got a sub-contracting job building compilers for RBC, and learned how to use ANTLR -- this is another tool for building compilers which is really cool.

I re-built HackScript in this, so that it was backwards compatible with the C-style old version, but added in many of the missing features... so there you have it.