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 …
Today I started work on the Phoo debugger. As-is, it is very simple – I already programmed in a “tick” function into Phoo that gets called every item, and so my debugger only needs to patch itself into this function.
However, the three buttons – “Into”, “Over”, and “Out” – caused me some …
I was working yesterday on trying to root out the bug in Phoo’s online shell; but I never found it.
Currently Phoo works-ish; except that in the online shell, the error behavior is backwards:
Last time I had just announced that Phoo was finished. Well, it’s still finished — except for the fact that the online console no longer works. I tried porting the shell code to Phoo, but that ended up breaking the shell!
It was pretty much a line-for-line translation, so I …
…Gosh, I just realized that I haven’t posted anything in weeks. I really don’t want to fall prey to the obsession of posting everything online. I hope I’m not.
Anyway, I just finished up the first draft of the documentation of Phoo. The generator script is Python …
In developing Phoo today I was unpleasantly presented with yet another reason why I prefer Python. It was when I was working on the new Importer API for loading external modules into Phoo that I accidentally did this:
class Importer { /* stub class */ }
class FetchImporter extends Importer {
constructor(basePath, fetchOptions = {}) {
/* no …After several days trying to debug the horribly bug-ridden local-echo package for xterm.js, I have had enough. It’s Ioannis’ responsibility to debug his package. I am switching over to another Javascript terminal ptogram I found, jquery.terminal by Jakub T. Jankiewicz. It has built-in readline support, and well …
I have finally gotten to the point in Phoo’s development that I am ready to set up the web interface.
I chose xterm.js for the terminal interface because I intend for Phoo to be able to be run in Nodejs as well as in the browser, but I …
Several moths ago I stumbled upon Gordon Charlton’s Quackery language while paroosing Github for something. Usually I don’t pay much attention to obviously irrelevant search results, but this one seemed worth a look. I found Quackery to be a simple stack-based semi-compiled language that makes infrequent use of …