Towards the Grand Unification

Today's programming world is quite different from 20 years ago, when C/C++ was still the dominant language(s), and we just need to learn one language(s) to do all our work. Today, there are 3 major paradigms of applications: the oldest command line apps, the desktop GUI apps and the latest web apps. The last one is quite different from the other two as it utilizes many DSLs (domain specific languages). These DSLs made us more expressive, but also gave us all the headaches of a multi-lingual speaker. Isn't it great if we just need to speak one "universal language"?

Why I invented Candle (II)

In the previous article, I talked about the motivation of inventing Candle from the perspective of a markup-data processing language. In this article, I'll continue the discussion from the perspective of a general-purpose programming language.

Why I Invented Candle (I)

The very first idea of inventing a new programming language hit upon me more than 10 years ago. At that time, I was still in the university, and I was trying to build a web forum for my peer scholars. I was using Perl. The pain in using Perl drove me to invent a better language that treats markup as built-in data type. Initially I was trying to mix XML with Java, which I considered to be the best markup and programming languages in the world. Then came XSLT and XQuery, which changed my design of the new language fundamentally.

Porting Candle to MinGW and CodeLite

Thanks to CodeLite, porting Candle source code to MingGW was much simpler than I thought.

As I wrote previously, finding the right C/C++ IDE (other than VC Express) was not easy for me, and my last settlement was with Eclipse CDT. So porting Candle source code to other compiler and IDE on Windows, like MinGW, was not of high priority for me.

I was googling for something (I don't remember what it is) and one of the result page recommended CodeLite, and triggered me to give CodeLite a trial.

Porting Candle to Linux

My experience of porting Candle from Windows to Linux is really like riding roller coaster, with up and downs, surprises and shocks, screamings and desperations all along the way. With over 100,000 lines of Candle source code, and with no previous experience of C development on Linux, the journey was really not for faint-hearted. The most difficult part was actually getting used to the C/C++ tool chain on Linux. I'm probably too much spoiled by Visual C/C++.

Hello World!

This is my first post! More are coming soon!