The whimsy to knock together a toy language is still around. It only seems to grow looking into other languages like F#/Ruby/Python which all make me want to vomit and/or kill more or less. F# is the least offensive, probably because it's the most alien (and the alien things make sense).

But I've sp…

Holy crap, a comment!

In other news, I dabbled a little more with F# over the past days. The BigInt stuff seems to be missing a lot, and the intellisense on stuff seems wonky. For list/List at least, it tends to oscillate between three visible types; only one really containing the useful (if sometim…

My work decided over the weekend to lock down everything outgoing except port 80. This is the same place that requires "new" passwords every month. And requires papers in-triplicate before assigning people laptops.

Because clearly any determined internal attacker won't think of printing anything out…

I finished my first F# app in about 2 hours. No feedback at deadline and it's been pushed off the main page. Alas.

I am a little disappointed so far. Pattern matching, which seems to be one of the big things promoted as functional stuff to learn seems at face value to be not much more than nicer syn…

Two weeks have gone by, which means my whimsy as directed me elsewhere. No wonder I can't get anything done... I got another drive to do programming language development, which is dumb since I didn't have the follow-through to get the plain C# parser working fully to extend that. Also dumb since I…

Or progress anyways. My long weekend of free time comes to a close tomorrow, alas.

Food Processing now processes. Mostly. Tiles may now hold buildings. Added building fields. Added some clusterfark to allow arbitrary building types to message properties over a network. Added a field to define food s…

After clearing up a bug with my test immortal monkey unit, I added the Food Processing Phase to Moe turn processing. Not much processing is being done yet alas; it's being blocked mostly by the lack of buildings and thus granaries as well as the lack of happiness (and thus what defines 'hungry' rat…

I have my evenings to myself for the rest of the week and a mostly empty weekend. I'm very near the end of the shoot yourself in the head game and I have a large bag of red swedish fish. Based on this, I started back into Moe with the hope of getting some headway in the nice lull time.


Working with …

I just went through and picked up Armageddon Empires based on the little I read from today's Penny Arcade link. My hobby project is pretty much exactly the sort of market this game is in (hex based strategy on the PC by an indie sort of developer and priced accordingly) which means:

1. I'm intereste…

Debugging parsers sucks nards.

I redid the PrimaryExpression parser for C#3.0 because my parsing framework doesn't handle left recursion. I then spent the rest of the day looking into why it didn't work. Turns out I forgot to put .Optional after the parser declaration for the postfix(++/--) operator…