Turbo Pascal Compiler in JavaScript: http://www.teamten.com/lawrence/projects/turbo_pascal_compiler/.

There must be more of these interesting efforts. I remember a Basic interpreter in TeX (http://texcatalogue.sarovar.org/entries/basix.html).

Paul Krugmans review of the new book by Bill Nordhaus:  www.nybooks.com

(More info about book see: www.amazon.com)

Of course it is useful to keep in mind this criticism: pindyck.html.

gdx2sqlite

SQLITE (http://www.sqlite.org/) seems to be a reasonable alternative to MS Access as a file based database system. Basically we want to use a database rather than a spreadsheet to disseminate model results (the results are too big to comfortably fit in a spreadsheet). One of the advantages of Sqlite is that it can handle files that exceed 2 gb. In the GAMS tool GDX2ACCESS I tried to be smart and do the bulk inserts as  fast as I could (often that means using a csv file in between). In Sqlite there are no special facilities to do bulk inserts (but of course we can be judicious with using transactions). Here are comparisons with some test data:

Even though I use just INSERT statements, SQLITE is pretty fast, and produces smaller files than MS Access.