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 to their website and explore the information there. There’s an interactive workspace for trying the language on the website. In Read more …

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 the four part series “Thoughts on Programming Languages and Environments – Jetson Dev Kits” (part 1 is here), there is Read more …

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. We also noted that there are some issues using C as a general purpose programming language in modern-day use. Surprisingly, Read more …

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 of the discussion, we’ll talk a little about the environment the language C sprang from. This series of articles will Read more …

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 used Objective C. Of course in such a large population there is a wide variety of languages being used, but Read more …

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) has gone through many changes over the last 10 years. Probably the most profound change is in the complexity of Read more …