Month: August 2016

In Part I of our Go (Golang) discussion, we went over why Go might be a good programming language for embedded systems. It is certainly worth you time to go […]

The Go programming language (sometimes called Golang) is a modern programming language which aims to “make it easy to build simple, reliable and efficient software”. Background As we discussed in […]

In Part III of this series, we discussed how the Unix kernel came to life using the C programming language, and a little bit of the genesis of the kernel. […]

In Part II of our discussion about programming, we talked about when some of the more popular programming languages came into existence, and how people used them. In this part […]

In our previous discussion about programming, we discussed what the target development environments were like 10 years ago. Desktops were generally programmed using C# on Windows PCs, and the Macintosh […]

Over the last couple of years, I have been thinking and reflecting on programming languages and environments. Programming as a skill (or art depending on how you view such things) […]