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Why write SMC in Java?

April 26, 2017Java SMC write

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Why write SMC in Java?

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Actually, it wasn’t in Java originally. It was written in C/LEX/YACC. But I wanted to run SMC on multiple platforms like the various Unices, Linux, Windows and Macintosh. Porting the C/LEX/YACC combination to those platforms would have been a real headache. So I instead ported SMC to a platform-independent language. I re-wrote the lexer and parser as an SMC finite state machines. Now SMC will run on whatever platform Java runs on – which includes the vast majority of boxes.