Ordered N810

Yesterday I placed an order for the N810 Internet tablet. They've been talking about a successor to the N810 for months now (RX-51 / N900), but frankly, the N810 will probably suffice for years whether or not a new (and more expensive) model appears in the next few months.

— by Robert Thomson, created 13th Mar, 2009, last modified 13th Mar, 2009 | Tags: Tech

 Parrot, Squaak, Perl6

I’ve been playing around with Parrot again lately, since it’s approaching a 1.0 release. I’m going through the tutorials for the Parrot Compiler Toolkit, and I’m quite impressed. Sure, I keep shooting myself in the foot since I don’t understand how everything interacts yet, but it does work. I like it because it makes it easy to figure out what’s really going on and how the conversion processes work, and it seems to be reasonably well documented.

One of my longer term goals is to have a suitable nice language for MUD world programming (which assumes that the programmers can’t be trusted), and I think I’d like to modify an existing language to fulfill the requirements. Of course, having almost no idea about compiler design seriously limits how much I can tweak without wreaking havoc.

— by Robert Thomson, created 10th Mar, 2009, last modified 10th Mar, 2009 | Tags: Tech