Category Archives: Languages

Dreaming of Swift and Embedded Control

Posted on 5. June 2014 by Lucio Di Jasio

  During the  WWDC 2014 event this week, Apple unveiled a new programming language called Swift. This is meant to complement the Objective C programming language that has been serving Apple developers for the past 20 years and eventually replace … Continue reading →

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Unexpected (Positive) Side Effects of using Python: Cross Platform Simulation

Posted on 28. July 2013 by Lucio Di Jasio

When talking of side effects, more often than not, we are referring to the bad ones. This is especially true when they are involuntary and unexpected. But here is the story of a good one, a side effect of using … Continue reading →

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Codecademy

Posted on 27. March 2012 by Lucio Di Jasio

Last night, I was cleaning up (managing) my notes (I use Evernote for pretty much everything in my life) and I stumbled upon a reference to “codecademy”.  For as much as I tried I could not remember what it was … Continue reading →

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Virgil

Posted on 19. February 2012 by Lucio Di Jasio

  I was reading recently about the (slow) adoption of object oriented programming languages in the embedded world. There is quite a sad situation, while in the mainstream, OOP languages are pretty much a standard, in the embedded world, they … Continue reading →

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Atypical Curiosity

Posted on 17. January 2012 by Lucio Di Jasio

Actually I am typically pretty curious, especially when it comes to programming languages. Atypical is a programming language that I discovered recently almost by mistake. It was designed for the PIC and around the PIC assembly (midrange, 14-bit core) by … Continue reading →

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Real World Instrumentation with Python

Posted on 1. March 2011 by Lucio Di Jasio

There is a new book on my nightstand, and it is one of the best I have read in years: it is called “Real World Instrumentation with Python” by J.M. Hughes, published by O’Reilly!Less than a month ago I was … Continue reading →

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Learning Ruby

Posted on 22. January 2011 by Lucio Di Jasio

Browsing through those large book stores, of the kind and size you can find only in the US, is one of my favorite pastimes. I can loose myself in there for entire afternoons just letting the eye fly (wink) over … Continue reading →

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