Sapir-Whorf with Programming Languages
I’ve been coding in Objective-C for a month or so now. It is interesting (in a Sapir-Whorf sort of way), how the language changes the way that I code. Switching from Objective-C to Lisp made me notice...
View ArticleProgramming When Clarity Counts
In my previous post, I wrote some code in Perl because I wanted the code to be clear and obvious. Wait? What? Who uses Perl when they want clarity? Perl I admit: I was surprised myself. Seriously, I...
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Casting to Integers Considered Harmful
Background Many years back, I wrote some ambient music generation code. The basic structure of the code is this: Take one queen and twenty or so drones in a thirty-two dimensional space. Give them each...
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Spelling iPhone App sent to Beta Testers
I am pleased to say that I just sent my first iPhone app out to some friends to beta test. I expect to forward it along to Apple for inclusion in the App Store some time in the next week or two. At...
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Speedy iPhone App Programming
Sunday, I decided that I needed a simpler statistics tracking program to keep track of stuff while I’m coaching volleyball. I started out keeping them on paper, but felt that I was staring at the page...
View ArticleXML Parser Generator
A few years back (for a very generous few), we needed to parse a wide variety of XML strings. It was quite tedious to go from the XML to the native-language representations of the data (even from a DOM...
View ArticleParser Generator released
A few weeks back, I described an XML Parser Generator that I was working on. At the time, it could generate the parser it used itself. Now, it’s got Objective-C support and Lisp support. (The Lisp...
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