distraction

My my, I've rather been distracted from this whole computer world. I blame my University course and life in general. Have at you, life!

However, I now have a small break - it's quite amusing because I don't think anyone else has a holiday at this time of year. So to everyone else - na na na na naaa na.

Have at you, everyone else.

I'm really embarressed - I've had the amusing complaint that my tagsoup parser handles not some of the xml data types, like our happy friend Mr CDATA. I've never actually used the thing - it was a half baked solution to the problem of gathering links in shpider. Sorry Mister! I'll fix it (soon).

I trekked up to Aberdeen a couple of times in the last few weeks. Lizzie has been transfered into second year Geography, which is good. However she lives in Hillhead which is amusing.

Our sleep was interrupted one night by the tumultuous yobbery of three freshers chanting xenophobic English football songs. They were followed closely by a throng of international students, whom they had apparently befriend. Weird as hell. Also, not a good demonstration of adapting to survive, on the part of the English football fans, considering their proximity to Tillydrone and other lovely places to live.

Delve delve delve. I've neglected you so! But really, it'll get done. Sooo many bugs, so many tests to pass.

But I've sworn to make the next release coherent - so I'd rather get it done properly, and let it take a while.

I visited Rory's flat while at Aberdeen, where I'd left my copy of the dragon book - so I starded reading the section on code generation and runtime systems again. I've concluded that it won't be so difficult to compile Delve into machine code.

However, due to the support for continuations, a lot of data, is going to have to go on the heap rather than stack - I don't want to have to make deep stack copies all the time.