I worked for a while last week on the PICKLE implementation in Python. As I no longer have to work on the garbage collector, after I wrote a little “glue code” I immediately dove into the core functionality of PICKLE: the pattern-matching engine. Once I get the algorithm down, I …

I’ve been doing a little bit of everything lately. I’ve done a little work on PICKLE, trying to implement it first in Python so I don’t have to worry about the garbage collector. (The pattern-matching code is extremely complicated and screwed with my brain until I realized …

I did a lot of work on Tinobsy, the garbage collector for PICKLE. It’s pretty robust now, and passes all my tests – plus I translated it to C++ so I can take advantage of C++’s syntactic sugar for objects. All I think that I’ll be doing with …

The original Roboraptor had dual power supplies. Two “AA” size batteries supplied 3 volts for the logic circuitry, and four batteries in a separarte circuit provided 6 volts for the motors. My redesign of the Roboraptor is designed to run off of a large single-cell 3.7 volt lithium battery …

Yet again I find myself writing a garbage collector.

I did a little work on PICKLE’s Javascript implementation, and perhaps Javascript is not the right choice. Because Javascript’s inheritance model is so similar to PICKLE’s, yet slightly different, implementing the inheritance (even with ES6 Proxys) is …

I’m starting to work on my Pickle programming language, this time in Javascript. After only a few days’ work, I’m surprised I got so much working. Currently I have both the tokenizer and the inheritance system working. The syntax of Pickle is pretty much in place now, and …

Phoo fried my brain.

My first programming language has just gotten way too complicated for me to maintain. I still haven’t found the bug in the shell. And in the process of debugging it, I may have caused more bugs, too. Argh!

It’s compounded by the fact that …

I’ve been working quite a lot on my second programming language attempt, PICKLE. Admittedly, programming it in C has been a real chore. I started following the Make-A-Lisp tutorial to try to give myself some plan for executing PICKLE. Mal, unfortunately, recommends dynamically typed languages; that unfortunately is a …

For the past week or two I have been working on a few things simultaneously. I keep prototype code that I’m developing but not quite ready to release yet in private GitHub repositories, and publish them when I’m ready. Lately I’ve been working on two different and …

Today I did a quick test of my little ATtiny85 microcontrollers’ capabilities. I had them sitting in a jar for a while, and I wanted to see if I could use them in conjunction as a coprocessor to manage some mundane task like regulating a motor. I have previously written …