Pete's Log: Log Entry 193

Entry #193, (Coding, Hacking, & CS stuff)
(posted when I was 21 years old.)

let's see, what have i been up to? i gotta start doing this more frequently.

anyway, today i wrote a makefile that was also a valid c program and compiled itself. kinda pointless. last night i wrote another obfuscated program to print out my name, but this one takes command line parameters... kinda. I also wrote a turing machine simulator that handles multiple tapes, with the number of tapes being determined at runtime. that got finished today, but it still needs some testing. i finished the parser for my compilers class, it was rather simplistic. parsing is kinda fun. rewrote another, simpler, parser from c into c++ for the c++ group meeting tomorrow. did some research on how to create iostream-derived classes, since i want to write a socket stream class. i'm gonna be getting more involved in the whole pim thing, cuz that's definitely cool stuff. Dr. Freeh has given me permission to write a multiple-pass compiler instead of the single-pass one that the class requires, i need to look into that. i'm no longer secretary of the acm chapter, seeing how i'm a senior now and all and won't be eligible next year. read the books of ecclesiastes and judith, due to insomnia not presenting with anything better to do. somehow it seems i've actually accomplished some things over the past few days, but it really doesn't feel like it, i feel rather overwhelmed with work at the moment, not sure why, this is supposed to be an easy semester. insomnia has plagued me all week, and that's been putting me in a less-than-ideal mood.