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I’ve got some code compiling right now so I thought this would be a good time to write another entry.

Today’s story starts last Thursday, when our hero (me) finally got fed up with trying to learn wxWidgets and decided to rewrite x42view as a Windows.Forms project. The first iteration of this was written in C++/CLI (because the rest of the libx42 project is written in C and C++ so interoperability was certainly a must) and let me just say I will never again use C++/CLI for a WinForms project.

Randall Munroe stuck ocarine in the EM spectrum chart. Between that and the raptors I think I may have a new hero.

That is all.

Scott recently pointed me to the LLVM project and I have to say I’m impressed. More than impressed. I’m downright drooling on my keyboard. The site even has a page where you can throw it some C/C++ code and it’ll spit out the corresponding assembly code. I tried it out and I have only one question: is this love?

Through the ages, men have envisioned many different worlds. Though science tells us it’s round, in medieval times most Europeans believed it to be flat (or else). The ancient Greeks believed it to be suspended above Hades, and if you like God of War 2 you’re probably fond of the idea that that all rests atop the shoulders of mighty Atlas…

A little while ago I wrote about my hatred of some of C++’s features. This time I’m going to add to it with a bit of praise for C++, and then some more hate. Alright, lot more hate.

Today I ran across an interesting blog entry called Apologies in Code by Tim Ottinger. The basic idea is that most (if not all) comments are apologies for bad code. While I don’t entirely agree with the author, it caught my attention because it describes how I’ve felt about comments from the first day I started coding.

Ran into a really cool game called Forces and it’s pretty much destroyed my morning’s productivity. Probably also the evening’s…but one never knows when WoW will strike next. Er, I mean, I’ll be working hard to make up for the lost time. Yes. Working…

Let the ranting begin…

This is probably the eighth time I’ve written a vector.h. Why so many rewrites, you ask? Because it’s taken that long for me to divorce myself from C++’s second plus. A brief history of our rocky little relationship, as recorded in the revision logs of my math utility files (and written in third-person, because that amuses me), follows:

I tend to hate blogs; now I have one. Oh noes…