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Project Status 1

Here’s a quick run down of what I’ve been researching, thoughts that have been floating through my head. Finding a starting place When I started this project, I had an extremely ambitious goal, and...

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Informal Language/Platform Requirements

Just a list of things which I think will be necessary for the language/platform without getting into much detail about what I think the solutions are. Platform Requirements Robust scene graph –...

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Writing my ANTLR grammar

So I think I’ve settled enough on my syntax to really get started. I batted back and forth how I wanted to get started with this thing. I was obviously talking about gtk++ to start with, but I really...

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Blackjack

So considering I’m no longer going the gtk route, I’ve decided to scale down my first real world example to the game of blackjack. It should nicely scale to graphics and networked/distributed play. I’m...

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Blackjack Update

So yeah, about that Antlr grammar… it’s still not here. What a surprise! However, the blackjack example has really been a nice way to find the holes left in my language.  Specifically, it made me face...

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Another excuse post

I’ve been up to some important stuff that has had nothing to do with this project. Enough said. To follow: my formal study of programming language theory, design, and implementation.

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New Idea – Courses For An Autodidact

Spindle Hiatus So a common theme for me while trying to create a new programming language is that I just don’t know enough. I think it’s important to not just read, but also to do. However, I sometimes...

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Set Theory

One of the interesting things I noticed looking over my books is that all of my theoritcal books start with an overview of Set Theory and Induction. I mostly remember sets from taking Discrete Math in...

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Greek Letters

I know this will make me sound really ignorant, but can I just say that as someone who isn’t really that into math, but knows it has knowledge I want, the whole greek letter thing really gets to me. I...

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Notes to self (Spindle)

Can’t help myself. Revisting grammer to keep it fresh in mind. Made some decisions: Definitely go with \foo->foo+2 as syntax for anonymous functions. \foo works as a standalone object for pattern...

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