Some random updates:
I’ve been reading Neal Stephenson’s Quicksilver. This is the second time I’ve started to read the book and I must say that I’m just having a lot of trouble getting into the book. That said, I haven’t abandoned it yet- I’ve enjoyed all of the other Stephenson novels I’ve read so far. Also, the last book I read, Gore Vidal’s Creation got me excited about the genre of historical fiction. I’m still hoping Quicksilver gets better eventually.
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The other book I’ve been working through is Compiler Construction by Niklaus Wirth. This is a concise, and in my opinion, great introduction to compilers. I have also been building a small compiler written in C. It doesn’t have much yet, but here’s the test program, which it can successfully compile:
a := 11;
b := a+12;
if a > b then c := b*5
elsif a > 20 then c := b + 5
elsif 0 > 1 then c := 2*b
else c := 101
end;
repeat
a := a - 1;
b := b + 3
until a < 1;
d := 14No procedures, arrays or types yet(of course, it has plenty of other stuff missing, these three just happen to be on my immediate backlog). But hey, baby steps!