I had some time tonight to work on Tangent. On the menu? Infrastructure for unit of measurement types (as the clever folks might've guessed by the title). Under the hood, a Measure inherits (awkwardly) from Type. It adds a list of UnitOfMeasure, a comparator, and a few util methods for now. A UnitO…

First off, thanks to Daerax for the great link that helped this post get along.

Secondly, w00t! I got my christmas present

And work is finally calming down after release and the clean-up of a monumental clusterfuck caused by a single mis-labeled constant used once in code (not mine). Which allowed me…

I realized something today. I do not learn advanced concepts well. This is a known problem. There's probably a lot of reasons why this is, and I have a decent idea about a few of them, but today I thought of a new one.

I am pretty smart. Or at least all the tests always said I was, and looking aroun…

Work continues to be hellish. If someone does not go postal or quit or end up in a psych ward or shot by an angry client by the end of next week, we'll call it a win.


So no Tangent work. Still need to implement better method grouping for phrases, generic bits for phrases, the type-arg sort of stuff,…

So that project that I thought would clear out once released? The hits just keep on coming with that. The project involves linking some payment processing with a new peer. First the peer neglected to implement one of the codes we needed. There's a bunch and it's a rare code, so we didn't catch it i…

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but hopefully the release will free up my motivation and time to get back to it.

Umm yeah. This is not the case. Today's lesson at the school of hard knocks is 'how much work is there once the work is "done"?'.

Got to work over the weekend to babysit and tweak some stuff regarding the release of the big project I was leading. No time for work on Tangent, but hopefully the release will free up my motivation and time to get back to it.

And now that at least the basics of generics are declarable (and making t…

Quote: Dude from work said:
Your programming language is like Lisp without parenthesis.

I am not sure if I should be insulted or thrilled.

Plenty of time tonight to work on implementing generics for methods. I managed to get type parameters working earlier in the week. Again, that is this sort of construct:

public static bool    foo {
    // ...
}

if( foo string ){
   // ...
}

A declaration that says 'this argument must be a type, and is ref…

Had the evening free to work on added implementation of generics. Generic methods are pretty much a hojillion more times difficult to implement than their class brethren. To complicate matters a bit, I'm looking to modify the standard syntax a bit to better support phrases.

There are three things th…