The TiCC utils C++ library contains useful functions and other goodies for general use in TiMBL and other parts of the TiCC software stack and beyond.

A macro processor that is used automatically by the GNU C compiler to transform programs before actual compilation.

Perl scalars can be either strings or numbers, and normally you don't really care which is which as it will do all the necessary type conversions automagically.

The Crystal's language syntax is inspired by Ruby, the language is statically type-checked but does not require that the type of variables or method arguments be specified.