I maintain a program that does something complex based on a simple set of explicit commands. For example, if it were a painting robot (the truth is far more boring), you give it an XML file with elements like (angles swapped for brackets) [rectangle x="40" y="40" w="10" h="10" color="red"/] and it goes and paints it. I have some users that would like to write loops, functions, and keep variables -- but I don't want to write a state machine or interpreter. Is there some sort of language/specification that compiles a simple XML-type language into "flat" XML? [more inside]
posted on Mar 7, 2007 - 6 answers

Does anybody know of a free C compiler for DOS that generates 16-bit code and allows in-line assembly?
posted on Sep 26, 2006 - 9 answers