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Dreaming of Swift and Embedded Control
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
Unexpected (Positive) Side Effects of using Python: Cross Platform Simulation
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
Codecademy
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
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
Atypical Curiosity
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
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
Learning Ruby
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