Re: [SLUG] Plug: Introducing Bake

From: Dylan Hardison (dylanwh@gmail.com)
Date: Tue Mar 21 2006 - 08:37:14 EST


On 3/21/06, petetheisen <petetheisen@verizon.net> wrote:
> Dylan Hardison wrote:
> <snip>
> > Why did I write it? 1) It was fun. I learned about LALR(1) parsers,
> > implementing a language runtime... 2) I used to use make to build
> > quite a lot of things (e,g slug stats, some config files in /etc),
> > and hated it. Bake is now powerful enough to do everything I want.
> > (And build itself).
> >
> > Writing bake for me was like playing a first person shooter, except I
> > get a useful program at the end. :)
>
> Hi Dylan!
>
> Fun for the first reason? If you want fun I have a no-budget 501 (c) (3)
> charity project for you. No budget but I guarantee fun!
>
> More fun than you can stand. I have been working on it for ten years
> myself, but I don't know much about programming so I haven't got it
> working yet.

What's the punch line? ;)

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