Jordan Henderson

My work related background

http://www.linkedin.com/in/jordanhenderson

This web site is for the personal software projects I have created over the years.

The first software project being release into the open source comunity is the merge engine.

Merge Engine

The merge engine works purely on data and the idea of replacement. The language embeds into any other programming language, text or binary. This version being released now is implemented in TCL and implements only a subset of the full language. The full language is effectively a set theory language. The data is viewed as lists of tuples. These lists contained named attribute data pairs. The data can be either an atom or an expression in the merge language. The semantics of the language allow for variable replacement to set operators like cross product, intersection, union, difference.

This version of the code depends on the TCL lexer 'fickle'. The download file contains the output from 'fickle' and therefore 'fickle' is not needed unless you intend to modify the lexer. Information about 'Fickle' can be found at: http://wiki.tcl.tk/3555 and the source code can be found at: http://tcl.jtang.org/fickle/

The source code is released under the BSD license. Please read the license before downloading the source code.

 Copyright (c) 1990-2009, Jordan Henderson
 All rights reserved.

 Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
 modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met:
     * Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright
       notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.
     * Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright
       notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the
       documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.
     * Neither the name of the <organization> nor the
       names of its contributors may be used to endorse or promote products
       derived from this software without specific prior written permission.

 THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY Jordan Henderson ''AS IS'' AND ANY
 EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED
 WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE
 DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL Jordan Henderson BE LIABLE FOR ANY
 DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES
 (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES;
 LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND
 ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT
 (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS
 SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.