Various musings about how to deal with units of measure in the Heron graphics library.

File this under 'tooting my own horn'.

In Python variables are never explicitly typed. I consider this a Very Bad Thing.

Currently Heron is not allowing implicit casting to function arguments. I am trying to decide whether this is a good thing.

For loop constructs in programming languages are usually syntactic sugar, but what should they map to?

When it comes down to it, C++ does only one thing wrong, it tries to be everyone's language.

A new Heron release is now available.

Here is a pattern I call the Bus Pattern. It's like the Visitor Pattern, except it's not.

The latest version of HeronFront has just been made and now compiles on GCC 3.4.1

Operator precedence in Heron is tricky, because any sequence of legal operator characters is a legal operator.

There is a widespread belief that garbage collection leads to automatic memory management, and that without a GC memory management is neccessarily complex. These are both false.

File this under: too many darn symbols.

My recent blog-post "Post-TDD" has generated some interesting and lively discussion. Here are some more of my thoughts and clarifications.

The latest HeronFront preview release has the beginning of introspection/reflection support.

I have made a pre-release of HeronFront which semi-successfully translates to C++ the primitives module from the standard library.