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authorStephen Enders <smenders@gmail.com>2019-12-10 00:38:31 -0500
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Blog Post: 2019-12-09 - Lisps, Assembly, C, and Conlangs
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+ <h2>Lisps, Assembly, C, and Conlangs</h2>
+ <p>I had originally hoped to do more blogging as a way of practicing my
+ writing and an incentive to do more hobby programming. The intent was
+ never to make this site solely programming, I had actually a few scrapped
+ posts about baking and guitar that just didn&#39;t get anywhere... but
+ that being said I did have a fair amount of hobbying in 2019 that I can
+ share some unfiltered, semi-structured thoughts on.</p>
+ <h3>Racket, 80x86, and even more C</h3>
+ <h4>Racket</h4>
+ <p><a target="_blank" href="https://racket-lang.org">Racket</a> is a
+ general-purpose lisp-like language. I had began messing around in it with
+ the intention of creating a similar language to <a target="_blank" href=
+ "https://docs.racket-lang.org/scribble/">Scribble</a> a document
+ authoring language written in Racket. I made <a target="_blank" href=
+ "https://xkcd.com/1205/">the classic mistake</a> of trying to create a
+ productivity tool rather than just do the task I had originally intended
+ to do. It was interesting messing around in a lisp/functional language
+ which I haven&#39;t really used in a long time. I wish I had more
+ insightful things to say about it or project to share. Either way its
+ very worth the look.</p>
+ <h4>6502 -&gt; 80x86 -&gt; Commander X16</h4>
+ <p>I wanted to play around with writing some assembly language programs.
+ I looked back at the NES tutorials and tried writing some basic
+ hello-world programs for it, but never really came out with anything
+ worth while. I booted up dosbox and tried experimenting in some DOS
+ programming to get a kick of nostalgia. On my way over to a friends
+ apartment I stumbled across an 80x86 reference book which I took home and
+ dug into. I made some decent progress in, relative to my 6502 learning.
+ But this was in the summer, and I was preparing for what would turn into
+ a pretty time consuming move. After my move, my puppy, and some youtube,
+ <a target="_blank" href="http://www.the8bitguy.com">The 8-Bit Guy</a>
+ made a video about his 8 Bit computer project <a target="_blank" href=
+ "http://www.commanderx16.com/X16/Ready.html">Commander X16</a> which I
+ started looking into. Like all the other assembly language projects they
+ never amounted to more than a few print statements or colors on the
+ screen. But X16 is something I am going to keep an eye on in 2020.<br>
+ <a target="_blank" href="https://eater.net/">Ben Eater</a> also started a
+ <a target="_blank" href="https://eater.net/6502">6502 video series</a>
+ which was amazing, and thankfully my learnings from earlier in the year
+ made the content very understandable. In summary, I spent a lot of 2019
+ reading and watching a lot of content about assembly language
+ programming, but never really did anything with it.</p>
+ <h4>Never ending C</h4>
+ <p>Without much to really say on the topic, I kept writing small programs
+ in C throughout the year. I spent a lot of time debugging and
+ troubleshooting a prefix terminal calculator with the intention of
+ making it a full utility to use on the command line / from within
+ scripts. You could do simple math without opening up x-calc, which I find
+ myself doing to check some quick math. Example code: <code class=
+ "inline">calc &quot;+ 1 1&quot;</code>. To me this was far cleaner than
+ writing: <code class='inline'>echo $((1+1))</code>. The big ideas I had
+ for it was adding a REPL and making it a command line calculator tool
+ where you could get the features of a standard calculator with store and
+ recall functions. This project involved making two stacks: the operations
+ and the numbers. Implementing two stacks from scratch was interesting and
+ I may upload the source and link it in an update. Overall it was full of
+ breaks, bugs, wrong turns, and bizarre memory issues. So needless to say
+ it was a fun 3 days of programming.</p>
+ <h3>Non Programming Writing</h3>
+ <p>The project that soaked up a majority of my writing time, which sadly
+ should&#39;ve been documented here, was my conlang / world-building
+ project &quot;Tyur&quot;. This project spawned out of sci-fi story ideas
+ that, of course, never went anywhere (due to my poor dialog writing, and
+ writing in general) and my interest in language history. I have been
+ reading <a target="_blank" href=
+ "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1831667.The_Horse_the_Wheel_and_Language">
+ The Horse the Wheel and Language</a> by David W. Anthony, which goes into
+ the history around Proto-Indo-European. It can be a bit dense so I had
+ been reading it on and off, and during the off times also started
+ <a target="_blank" href=
+ "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18635317-the-origins-of-language">The
+ Origins of Language: A Slim Guide</a> by James R. Hurford, which tries to
+ provide insights on the evolutionary concept of language. Both of these
+ provided some fodder for the idea of creating my own <a target="_blank"
+ href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constructed_language">conlang</a>. My
+ conlang is &quot;Tyur&quot; the language spoken by the Tyur people. This
+ process has really been a mix of world-building around the Tyur and some
+ fun fantasy mini story ideas similar to The Lord of the Rings and old
+ Warhammer Fantasy worlds. This however began my adventure down the rabbit
+ hole of trying to figure out how to create a font so I can write more
+ here about it. The documentation on this conlang is a mix of loose-leaf
+ folded in my bag that I scribble on when I get an idea. So figuring out a
+ proper way of building the alphabet and some root words to start a
+ dictionary are my current goals for the remainder of the year/ start of
+ 2020.</p>
+ <h3>Closing</h3>
+ <p>In closing, I think despite not writing much here, I messed around
+ with some interesting languages this year, and hope I can hobby more in
+ 2020.</p>
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+ <i>December 09, 2019</i>
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+ <a href='/blog/2019-12-09'>2019-12-09 - Lisps, Assembly, C, and
+ Conlangs</a>
+ </li>
+ <li>
<a href='/blog/2019-02-17'>2019-02-17 - Venturing back into C</a>
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