I can’t help but feel that progress is slow on ELIUS, my from-the-ground-up programming language. This is a natural and expected side-effect of only being able to work on it in spare time during the evenings and weekends, but it is still frustrating. Today I made some progress on adding the first set of “primitive” …
I’m trying to make a concerted push on a first working version of CORNELIUS at the moment, and it’s throwing up all sorts of interesting aspects of software development. For the first version I am building the minimum OS and language in C. However, I am trying very hard to minimise the amount of C …
One of the characteristics of “Problem-Oriented Languages” (POL) is that they are tiny. The language run-time provides just enough to enable a programmer to extend the language into something appropriate to the needs and terminology of the domain. This “tininess” also extends to memory usage. On a single process system the complete language and operating …