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GNU poke, the free extensible editor for structured binary data


This talk is titled "GNU poke, the free extensible editor for structured binary data," and was presented at LibrePlanet 2022 by José Marchesi.

José is a GNU hacker and maintainer. He is currently employed by Oracle as the Tech Lead of their toolchain/compilers team.

This talk is about GNU poke, which is an interactive editor for binary data. Not limited to editing basic entities such as bits and bytes, it provides a full-fledged procedural, interactive programming language designed to describe data structures and to operate on them. José will discuss these features and more.

License note: This work is under a GFDL license. Please see gnu.org/licenses/fdl-1.3.en.ht… for more information.

Slides: media.libreplanet.org/u/librep…

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I don't have a specific use case for this right now, but this is a really nice piece of software.

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