From: vidar.hokstad@gmail.com   
      
   I've been writing a compiler in Ruby as a hobby project, and at the   
   moment I'm serializing the development process on my blog. I though it   
   might be of interest to some people here. All the posts up in this   
   category:   
      
   http://www.hokstad.com/tag/compiler+in+Ruby+bottom+up   
      
   It's generating x86 gas-style assembler only for now. 9 parts are up.   
   It's completely experimental, and I'm doing the development very much   
   ad-hoc in that I haven't started with a language spec of any sort   
   (though I have some ideas of where I'll want to go...).   
      
   I've also very deliberately started in the "wrong end" - the very   
   first part started with code generation, and I'm building it up from   
   the ground by generating code first. In fact, I haven't gotten to the   
   parser yet. Instead I'm piggy-backing on Ruby arrays and symbols to   
   write test programs for it.   
      
   Vidar   
      
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