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Pointer Soup

By dragoncoder047

I never realized that the concept of a pointer could get so confusing. Over the last two months I came up with a number of different ideas that all involve pointers and got my brain all twisted up in knots when I got to the pointer part.

When I left …


Manual Memory Management Madness

By dragoncoder047

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 …


Lisp Practice

By dragoncoder047

Today I decided I would have a little fun with Lisp. I wanted to try and make a program that you can type in a function and get a graph of it.

I started off with a function that takes an $x$-value and a list of coefficients, and evaluates …