On-Topic Re: [Coco] Back to school

[Jim Cox]

Boisy:

Thanks so much for the encouragement and insight.  My long 
term focus is to work with C in embedded systems, 
scientific intrumentation (meteorology, oceanography, 
astronomy) or robotics (I have some interestng ideas so 
possibly all three)

As you know, I have some ideas for the CoCo, but until I 
get a better grasp of C and refresh my electronics (it's 
gotten very rusty working in IT and systems testing) I 
really do not want to promise anything. I do have a lot of 
ideas I may throw out there for other to chew on though.

Thanks again.

-Jim

On Sat, 1 Oct 2005 09:13:09 -0500
  Boisy Pitre <boisy at boisypitre.com> wrote:
> 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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