[Coco] Back to school

[Boisy Pitre]

That's great Jim.  You will find that taking the fun part in taking  
these courses is not only learning something new, but relating it  
back in someway to your CoCo.

One of the courses I am taking this semester is Programming  
Languages, where we investigate the ways and methods in which  
computer programming languages are constructed, designed and  
represented.  Listening to the lecture and reading the book have  
given me an appreciation for how languages like Basic09 were created,  
the historical context in which they were born, and the design  
decisions that, at the time, were based on language conventions of  
the day.

Along with the lecture, which is full of theory, there are  
assignments which are keeping us busy, and introducing us to knew  
languages at the same time.  The semester project has us writing an  
interpreter for the Algol 60 language... in SNOBOL.  We just received  
our in-semester assignment... writing a Hindley-Milner type  
inferencing algorithm in a language called ML (that's ML for Meta- 
Language).

For me, all of this just sparks my imagination on what cool languages  
we could use to create programs for our CoCos.  Of course, we have  
Basic09 which is a pretty darned good language in its on right.   
There is Pascal which is also a good language, and of course, C.  But  
there are so many other languages that could be investigated, some  
interpretive, some compiled.  Even the idea of creating a new  
programming language designed for the specific features and memory  
footprint of the CoCo is an interesting idea.

Get everything that you can out of the class, and as an aside, think  
of creative ways in which you can apply this knowledge to the CoCo.

Boisy

On Oct 1, 2005, at 1:07 AM, Clifford Redding wrote:

> Let me be the first to say "good luck"! I for one just can't get my  
> head around "C" even though I have tried it in the past. Maybe I'll  
> try again with it sometime soon! Yup. Sure, Maybe i'll just stick  
> with Basic09.
>
>
> Clifford
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jim Cox" <jimcox at miba51.com>
> To: <coco at maltedmedia.com>
> Sent: Friday, September 30, 2005 9:20 PM
> Subject: [Coco] Back to school
>
>
>
>> I sent an email to some people privately, but I thought I'd share  
>> this with the list too.  Last Wednesday was my first day of C  
>> Programming class.  I'm coming into this with about a year of OJT  
>> experience of C programming and I am looking forward to build a  
>> nice foundation in the language.  After a 23 year detour, I feel I  
>> am finally back on track.
>>
>> I want to say thanks to the many of you who have helped me in the  
>> past, not just with CoCo stuff, but with many other things.  While  
>> I haven't done a lot with the CoCo lately, I do feel that my  
>> involvment with this list and with many of my CoCo friends has  
>> kept me going to the point to where I am now.
>>
>> Thanks all.
>>
>> -Jim
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