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The next regular monthly meeting of the DLSLUG will be held: Thursday, October 2nd, 7-9PM at: Dartmouth College, Carson L02 All are welcome, free of charge. Agenda 7:00 Sign-in, networking 7:15 Introductory remarks 7:20 A Teaching Compiler Written in MATLAB presented by Bill McKeeman Bill McKeeman will give a talk about an ordinary compiler (lex, parse, tree, gen, emit, asm) designed for teaching the principles of compiler writing. There are a few surprises, such as load-and-go, integrated bottom-up and/or top-down parsing, a LaTeX based pretty printer, an LR(1) parse table generator, an Intel x86 emulator for debugging, and the like, all in MATLAB. He will survey the 15meg or so free download, give demos, tell war stories, and answer questions. And yes, it does run under Intel based 32-bit Linux (and Apple and WIN). Attendees are encouraged to bring a laptop and download materials from: http://tinyurl.com/matlab-teaching-compiler http://dlslug.org/downloads/meetings/2008/10/cxcom.zip Bill has taught compiler writing at Stanford, University of California at Santa Cruz, Wang Institute, Harvard and Dartmouth. He has written more than 100 compilers, some for money, including the current MATLAB JIT. His website is at http://cs.dartmouth.edu/~mckeeman . 8:50 Roundtable Exchange - where the attendees can make announcements or ask a linux/oss question of the group. ----- Driving Directions Please see the website for links to driving directions. Refreshments We currently lack a refreshment sponsor. If you or your company would like to provide or sponsor refreshments, please get in touch. RSVP RSVP by replying to this e-mail so we can give any refreshment sponsor a count. Mailing Lists There are two primary mailman lists set up for DLSLUG, an Announce list and a Discuss list. Please sign up for the Announce list (moderated, low-volume) to stay apprised of the group's activities and the Discuss list (unmoderated) for group discussion. Links to the mailing lists are on the webpage. Tell Your Friends Please pass this announcement along to anyone else who may be interested. ----- Bill McGonigle, Owner Work: 603.448.4440 BFC Computing, LLC Home: 603.448.1668 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cell: 603.252.2606 http://www.bfccomputing.com/ Page: 603.442.1833 Blog: http://blog.bfccomputing.com/ VCard: http://bfccomputing.com/vcard/bill.vcf _______________________________________________ DLSLUG-Announce mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://dlslug.org/mailman/listinfo/dlslug-announce _______________________________________________ gnhlug-announce mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-announce/ _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/