It has not been a good week. I set out on Tuesday to actually add real objects to PICKLE, with a hashmap of properties and multiple inheritance and everything. Suffice to say, that wasn’t easy. Between null pointer dereferencing, sloppy APIs, and an incomplete algorithm, it took several hours …

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’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 …