#c language

spending eight hours x three days locked in a room yapping back and forth with my girlfriend to learn the language enough to make an extremely basic image display properly and play an audio file

nearly can start with actually needing placeholder sprites though !!!! very exciting

Computer languages are often divided into groups, such as “3GL” and “4GL” — third- and fourth-generation languages. The divisions aren’t perfect, and don’t always represent a chronological evolution. Trends that seemed to be advancing programming have been abandoned when they proved overly complex or simply unnecessary. Human languages experience similar trends. Artificial attempts to control…

Are computer languages inherently “artificial” and “pure” — either like Esperanto or a dead language, such as Latin? Or, are computer languages as much “living” as spoken languages? Understand, I am not considering low-level assemblers or “dead” computer languages that exist in virtual museums (and yes, there are tech archives to explore). I mean the languages that are in wide enough use that…

In my earlier posts (I, II, and Intro), I explained that I’ll be using Xcode to learn Objective-C and the Cocoa Frameworks to learn about programming OS X and iOS applications. If you look back at those posts, you will find how to create a new command line application in either C or Objective-C. This blog entry compares “pure C” to the C code I’ll be using within an Objective-C file. Because…

I released my markup language spec with a reference implementation in C. You can also try the online playground: