Pete's Log: Log Entry 287

Entry #287, (Coding, Hacking, & CS stuff)
(posted when I was 21 years old.)

i am currently listening to Sandinista! by the Clash. it's interesting. i don't think it can be classified as punk, tho. i bought it a while ago, but only listened to one of the two cd's once. silly me.

my leg hurts.

i spent a good portion of today doing battle with code for compilers. i have discovered that i am not nearly as cool as knuth and cannot (repeat: cannot) release code and say that i've proven it correct without testing it. oh well. i wrote a cool shell script that scans a tm assembly file to see if it does any input. if it doesn't, it'll run the tm, collect its output, and generate a tm file that simply prints out that same output. the hardest part was getting my optimizer to execute this shell script. i am a dumbass, i always forget that i have to give a program i exec its argv[0] in addition to its path. argh.

am currently coding up some turing machine stuff. its fun, but hard to concentrate on. i think there's several reasons for this: 1. it's the end of the semester. 2. i am not nearly as hyped up on caffeine as i should be. and 3. it's not the kind of coding i am accustomed to doing, as it involves abstract stuff that i need to regularly look up, instead of stuff that i fully understand.