Sunday, November 4, 2012

Progress on Shi....sigh

Wow, no posts for over 3 months.  Part of that is the month long vacation I took at the beginning of August, and the other bigger part is just keeping up with my job.  Perhaps I'll talk about my vacation in another blog, as it was...I guess in a sense a life-changing event for me.

But alas, work has kept me far too busy to do anything with Shi.  Working 55+ hrs a week pretty much makes "hobby time" non-existent.  Despite that, I've been working on some posts detailing how to do debugging on a linux kernel.  Part of the reason I like to put up blogs here is so that I can refer back to them when I wonder "how in the hell did I do that before??".

For now though, Shi has been put on a hold.  I still have ideas for it, and for a little while, I was getting better at C++ so that I could use the llvm libraries to implement Shi.  To console myself, I am starting to watch the videos for a programming language design class at Brown University.  I've only watched the first two classes, but definitely it's been interesting so far.  All the more so because the professor will be using Racket Scheme to implement a subset of python :)

http://www.cs.brown.edu/courses/cs173/2012/OnLine/