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Any parser combinator library. Many of them come with toy examples like JSON and simple arithmetic expression parser.
Re:Measuring Polymorphism in Python Programs [pdf] on Tuesday June 14, 2016 @05:32PM (#11905483)
In Pharo (modern Smalltalk implementation) you can get some info from VM and JIT.

Someone is already working on type inference using VM caches.

See http://forum.world.st/parameters-of-the-virtual-machine-td48...

Re:Show HN: Rant, a procedural text generation language on Sunday December 07, 2014 @12:22PM (#8712824)
Procedural content generation in computer games.
Re:Saturn V Flight Manual (1969) [pdf] on Thursday October 30, 2014 @08:31AM (#8532527)
244 pages? Modern car user manulas are often thicker.
Re:Program Synthesis Demo on Monday July 14, 2014 @08:42AM (#8030583)
But it would be a good alternative to bash one-liners.
Re:Linus on git rebase and merge (2009) on Tuesday July 30, 2013 @12:35PM (#6128122)
I think parent meant using Mercurial or other DVCS that doesn't have such silly thing as "history rewriting". Leave that to politicians :-)
Re:Show HN: Marketplace to sell and buy side projects on Saturday July 20, 2013 @11:20AM (#6075444)
The web page is confusing. What looks exactly like search field, is in fact an e-mail address field. And when you enter something that can't be an email, no error is shown.
Re:Fuck Off As A Service on Wednesday July 17, 2013 @10:42AM (#6057901)
That's not the first service of such kind: see http://natribu.org/en/ (lacks an API however :-)
Re: There’s more to mathematics than rigour and proofs on Sunday November 11, 2012 @10:41AM (#4769704)
Didn't get the "engineering major" part. Why he thought that 9 is prime?
Security through obscurity?