More Programming Notes of Pseudo-Interest…
I have stumbled upon a few gems worth noting. First off, there is the Metalinguistic Abstraction. It’s a “good read” as far as blogs go, with respect to programming.
There is also an Object Oriented version of Unix out: UnixLite. It’s (unfortunately) written in C++, but it’s interesting (to me at least) to observe an object oriented unix-like operating system’s source code. It is a “toy” operating system, but don’t let that fool you: you could possibly hack it into a full blown Linux clone.
Interestingly, Minix3 has just recently announced they ported SQLite. It appears to be trying to become a server operating system, but it still has this air of being a toy to it (a certain je ne sais quoi as the French would say, if I remember how to spell in French).
I am considering going back to Davis a wee bit early (i.e. next Saturday perhaps?), so I will be busy meeting with old acquaintances and so on and so forth.
4 July 2007 at 11:58 pm
In re UnixLite: Call me when you get to a functional version of Unix. Maybe “LISPux”?
5 July 2007 at 6:34 am
I’ll have my eyes peeled; but I assume you are going to be using category theory on it if I find it. Out of curiosity, would that tell the programmer anything or would it just be a mathematical foundation for it?
That would actually make an interesting term paper, though, ig someone: 1) rewrote *nix in a functional language, and 2) translated it into category theory.
9 July 2007 at 8:06 am
hmm… I have great hopes for this site. I’m interested in Quantum Mechanics too, I just can’t get my head around it so much (I’m twelve)… can we do a simple article sometime? ^_^’
10 July 2007 at 2:37 pm
Here’s the dirty little secret, uber: nobody can. You don’t really “understand” QM, you just sort of “get used to it”.