{"id":1429,"date":"2007-02-28T20:10:27","date_gmt":"2007-03-01T00:10:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=1429"},"modified":"2007-10-06T10:15:40","modified_gmt":"2007-10-06T13:15:40","slug":"the-tech-the-science-and-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=1429","title":{"rendered":"The Tech, The Science and Space"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"dropcap\">F<\/span>or no <a href='http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?attachment_id=1430' rel='attachment wp-att-1430' title='New Horizon\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Flyby'><img class=\"alignright\" src='http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/02\/fly_by_n_ew_horizons.thumbnail.jpg' alt='New Horizon\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Flyby' \/><\/a>reason I was earlier up than normal, today: with the extra time I had I looked into several compiler-compilers (or parsers\/scanners) targetting C#. I ran into a couple of ones: First of all there&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.antlr.org\/\">ANTLER<\/a> (Public Domain, needs runtime). Secondly, there&#8217;s GOLD (written in VB, Freeware, needs runtime), which can output to multiple programming languages, including C#, ADA and Java. And there&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ssw.uni-linz.ac.at\/Coco\/\">COCO\/R<\/a> (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.tetzel.com\/CocoR\/\">other link<\/a>), a system I&#8217;m actually familiar with, if I just can find those earlier experiments.\n<\/p>\n<p>The hunt for the Higgs Boson is almost on: Today, a milestone was reached in the construction of the LHC, <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/science\/nature\/6402493.stm\">as the BBC reports<\/a> (<a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/science\/nature\/6404507.stm\">reporter&#8217;s impression<\/a>). <a href=\"http:\/\/public.web.cern.ch\/Public\/Content\/Chapters\/Spotlight\/Spotlight3Jump-en.html\">Cern has a report too<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n<p>Two flybys made it in the news: First ESA&#8217;s Rosetta made it past Mars (News in chronological order: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/SPECIALS\/Rosetta\/SEMUDT70LYE_0.html\">1<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/SPECIALS\/Rosetta\/SEMVZ2N0LYE_0.html\">2<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/SPECIALS\/Rosetta\/SEM9R6N0LYE_0.html\">3<\/a>) and shot some pretty images. And then, just today, NASA&#8217;s &#8216;New Horizon&#8217;s&#8217; probe <a href=\"http:\/\/www.space.com\/scienceastronomy\/070228_nhflyby_firstimages.html\">flew by Jupiter<\/a> and sent back imagery from Jupiter and some of its moons (<a href=\"http:\/\/pluto.jhuapl.edu\/gallery\/missionPhotos\/pages\/022807_3.html\">news at NASA<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/pluto.jhuapl.edu\/mission\/whereis_nh_jupiter.php\">fly by trajectory<\/a>).\n<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For no reason I was earlier up than normal, today: with the extra time I had I looked into several compiler-compilers (or parsers\/scanners) targetting C#. I ran into a couple of ones: First of all there&#8217;s ANTLER (Public Domain, needs &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=1429\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2,7],"tags":[128,88,107,123],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1429"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1429"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1429\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}