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• SimpleScript Part Seven: Binder Skeleton

  In Part Five I was discussing modules: there is a "global module" and any number of additional modules. Each module is associated with a named item, and the only module which is associated with more than one named item is the global module. This means Read More... Posted Tuesday, May 04, 2004 10:51 AM by Eric Lippert | 17 Comments Filed under: Scripting, COM Programming, SimpleScript

• SimpleScript Part Four: Finite State Machines and Script Engines

  Last time I said that I'd discuss finite state machines (also sometimes called finite state automata, same thing.) The FSM is a fundamental idea in theoretical computer science because it models computing machinery in a very simple, abstract and general Read More... Posted Saturday, April 10, 2004 5:18 PM by Eric Lippert | 11 Comments Filed under: Scripting, COM Programming, SimpleScript

• SimpleScript Part Three: Engine Skeleton

  Before I get into today's topic I want to quickly address a minor defect that Raymond Chen (who apparently spends his holiday in Sweden doing remote code-reviews, oddly enough) was good enough to point out to me. It is legal to unload a DLL if the only Read More... Posted Monday, April 05, 2004 5:32 PM by Eric Lippert | 4 Comments Filed under: Scripting, COM Programming, SimpleScript

• SimpleScript Part Two: Class Factories Are Also Boring

  Before I get into it, a Lambda poster pointed me at the NullScript project, which is a very interesting illustration of how reverse engineering works. It's an implementation of a "null" script engine -- an engine with no language -- in ATL, which the Read More... Posted Thursday, April 01, 2004 9:51 PM by Eric Lippert | 7 Comments Filed under: Scripting, COM Programming, SimpleScript

• SimpleScript Part One: DllMain is Boring

  In talking with our support engineer it's just become more muddled. I'm pretty sure now actually that the customer does not want to build a script engine, but whether they want to build a script editor, a script host or a script debugger is unclear. Before Read More... Posted Wednesday, March 31, 2004 11:01 PM by Eric Lippert | 21 Comments Filed under: Scripting, COM Programming, SimpleScript

• SimpleScript, Part Zero

  I'm going to embark upon something ambitious here. I got an email from Mike, our friendly support engineer on the east coast with the subject line " Need lots of info ". Apparently he was contacted by a customer who wants to implement a new script engine Read More... Posted Monday, March 29, 2004 10:40 AM by Eric Lippert | 10 Comments Filed under: Scripting, COM Programming, SimpleScript