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Re: Ask YC: What are you working on right now?

#81
post #67

Working on a "souce code annotating debugger" for an esoteric programming language. So instead of painfully stepping through your code line by line, you just press M-t inside a function definition and voilà: it shows you what goes on inside the function, using some example inputs to annotate the source code in a new Emacs buffer.

So, you're working on SLDB?

Re: Ask YC: What are you working on right now?

#84
post #19

redesign of http://thefeelgood.com/

I rather like your site, but it seems very confusing. Like I can't find any hearts for me to click on to say that I like it. (I'm on Opera 9.5 beta.) Also, there are songs embedded everywhere, and I'm not sure why, or what all the links mean. (I don't understand their purpose.) What would also be nice would be the title and the artist within these links as well.

I do like all the music I've clicked on so far though. . .

Edit: It does have the artist and title in the embedded link. Just seemed weirdly placed. My bad there.

Re: Ask YC: What are you working on right now?

#85

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I am also working on an MMO. It's a space game. My spin is that everything in this game will be emergent. The players can design and play anything in this game, or it will evolve through genetic algorithms. I've worked out how to do most of this. I'm still working out how to evolve NPC ship AIs, but that's not the most important. Also, everything in this game will be scriptable. Users will be able to create programs…

Please use a toolkit that has Mac support. Thank you. :)

Currently, I'm using Panda3D, which is compilable on OSX, though it's not supported in teh main branch yet.

Re: Ask YC: What are you working on right now?

#86
post #67

Working on a "souce code annotating debugger" for an esoteric programming language. So instead of painfully stepping through your code line by line, you just press M-t inside a function definition and voilà: it shows you what goes on inside the function, using some example inputs to annotate the source code in a new Emacs buffer.

So, you're working on SLDB?

No, it's not (E)Lisp related.

My "debugger" in fact executes a whole function without stop and prints the values of all used variables and the results of nested function calls next to the code itself.

I'm not yet sure how useful this is, but it's a fun project and a good excuse to implement an interpreter for said esoterical language.

Re: Ask YC: What are you working on right now?

#87
Trying to write an ms exchange killer. So many languages I want to learn, and never seem to have any time to start. (Right now on the list: Ada, Erlang, Python, Ocaml, C/C#/D/ObjC, Effiel, Smalltalk).

Was trying to do the android competition but too much junk happened in my life the past month that kept me from starting that idea.

Re: Ask YC: What are you working on right now?

#89
Right now I'm in the middle of a study group that I started here at work. We're studying Graham's book "ANSI Common Lisp" and studying inference in particular, so we're also covering some of "Paradigms of Artificial Intelligence Programming".

After that's done, I'm going to either spend some time working on the Netflix Prize (just to learn more, not in a real attempt to win) or doing some music programming in either Lisp, using the Common Music API, or Mathematica.

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