Author Archives: Jari Ronkainen

Creating a programming language, part 4: The Wild parts

What does the future hold? Unlike the other entries in the first two parts of [...]

Creating a programming language, part 3: Now We Interpret

Through the fire and flames trial and error Well, rather unsurprisingly, in hindsight, when I [...]

Creating a programming language, part 2: The Idea

Starting out Way before I even had a functioning parser, I already had some idea [...]

Creating a Programming language, part 1: Humble Beginnings

Where I started from I was always sort of interested in trying to build a [...]

Ronkainen Rants: To Use a Hammer to Carve a Boat

Contents Introduction Linked lists (Teaching the wrong tools or ancient lore) The Big O notation (Overfocusing [...]

Ronkainen Rants: Turning Power on with C

This is a (partly) fictional record about how I view C language and libraries. C is [...]