Got this e-mail today out of the blue, with regards to the hiramvillage.org site i run:
Cory,
Just wanted to say I just discovered the site, and compared to many others I visit dealing with local governments it’s one of the best. I really like the newsletters, quick to the point and informative. Nice job!
Nick Ciofani
District Outreach Representative
U.S. Congressman Steve C. LaTourette
After a week and a half at DePauw doing little experiments and playing with different possibilities, my group has finally settled on a project. As an overview, we are scrapping the current system (although we will use it to model the new system) and starting over. The old project, named FUNNIE, implemented a subset of the programming language Haskell; the new project, tentatively named SCALES, will implement Scala. It will be designed as a plugin for the Eclipse IDE and will provide support for graphics, sound, animation, and lazy evaluation of some or all of those. Due to the fact Scala is a large programming language, we will be designing and enforcing one or more subset levels of the language. Basically, when used to teach functional programming in an introductory computer science course, students can be restricted to certain key features of the Scala language, leaving the finer points and tricky syntax for advanced users.
I’m excited, there’s a lot of work to be done this summer, and a bunch of small steps need to be taken to have a large working project. My first thing I will be doing is learning ANTLR, which we will use for language level enforcement, and following that I will be learning background information for lazy evaluation. This is all in addition to a lot of Scala learning, because the language needs to be thoroughly learned by my team in order to properly choose what to include in our subset.
I won’t be driving a Lumina anymore. It had a bunch of stuff breakdown on it all at once, and the costs of repairs would’ve nearly exceeded the value of the car. So combining this with the vandalism, my parents got me a new car. I’m really excited about it, to say the least. It’s a 1995 Cadillac Eldorado Touring Coupe, here are some pictures.
The car’s very close to the Lumina in many aspects, particularly size. But the engine’s a big improvement, 140 more horsepower and two more cylinders…oooooo I like that. Another nice difference, a low fuel warning light! Won’t be calling AAA with an empty tank anymore.