Guys, I hate to say this, but I have a confession. After decades of being a staunch Perl and Ruby zealot, I confess that I… I… I love Python. A year ago, I started my current job at a research lab where Python is the lingua franca next to C. It’s just what the actual […]
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Smart Monkey
Second day of my return to work. Back at my old company as a contractor. Once again, I’m a smart monkey. It’s not super-exciting-omg-yes, but it’s work. New lab, new team, new job functions: somewhere in the company, somebody wants to know how the data buses leaving the CPU behave electrically, and it’s the job […]
C Tape
Currently working up a project that I’ve finally gained some momentum on. A year ago I set out to learn C, and my rationale for doing so was to write a program that could take all these computer tapes I have from the various computers I had in the late 80’s and decode their audio […]
Past TI 99/4A, Present Foray
My current project is one of steep learning curves, long memories, and hours of waiting and iterations. Back in high school, I had a TI 99/4A personal computer. We were too poor for the disk drive modules, so I had to store my programs on cassette tapes. I spent a lot of my time working […]
C Is for ANSI, That’s Good Enough for Me
In a bid to expiate myself, I’m currently reading “The C Programming Language, Second Edition.” Written by Brian Kernighan and Dennis Richie, the inventors of the language, this book is the bible when it comes to learning the language. Most modern languages owe their existence to this one. All modern operating systems are primarily written […]