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Whitespace usage in the wild

Books

• “Rubyで作る奇妙なプログラミング言語” (Making Esoteric Languages in Ruby) by 原 悠 (Yutaka HARA), published Dec 2008 [code] [Amazon]

Talks

• “The Art of Code” by Dylan Beattie, first presented Sep 2019 [abstract]
• “Lex and Parse All the Whitespace - leex and yecc and the Whitespace Esoteric Programming Language” by Derek Brown, lightning talk at Erlang & Elixir Factory SF Bay Area 2017 [code] [slides]
• “Steganography: Hiding your secrets with PHP” by Raúl Fraile, Jan 2015 [code]

Tutorials

• Writing a custom lexer, in the LALRPOP documentation [code]

Universities

Students have built Whitespace interpreters for several open-choice projects in compiler courses.

• A computability course at St Andrews had students prove the Turing-completeness of Whitespace in 2006.
• Compiler Construction at Cambridge listed Whitespace in its section on additional resources from 2014 to 2022.
• Term project for COMPSCI 4TB3 at McMaster University
  • erasure Whitespace interpreter by James You
• Computing and IT project TM470 at Open University
  • whitepy Whitespace interpreter by Yasser Saleemi
• Mini Project for Compiler Design at PES University
  • ws-compiler Whitespace parser by Sushrith Arkal, Tejas Kasetty, and Suhas Sumukh, academic year 2016–2017
• Practical Experiences of Programming at King’s College London
  • whiteSpaceInterpreter by Matias Faure [spec]
• Lenguajes y Compiladores at Universidad EIA
  • WhiteSpaceInterpreter by Zuleimi Esteffanny González Muñoz

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