I have a second person working on the code. That's an odd experience, it's sharing something that you've been working on for so long. It's hard not to take it personal at times. Fortunately the new guy is good.

Has decent ideas and is taking it in directions I wouldn't have thought of. Which is is the whole point.

separating characters

Right now gloo&gl is taken as a unique identifier. Because all characters that are not a number or string are taken as as an "atom"

By saying, all latin numeric characters form one set while everything else combines as something different would translate that into 3 identifiers gloo, &, and gl.

Makes it easier for doing functions and writing the code in general

Possible changes

I'm considering two possible changes for posl.

1. Separating ascii and special characters into different groups. This would allow for a condensed form of writing the code
2. Including an EOL indicator - This would be huge change in the structure and format that's allowed
   

looking for help

Finally decided that I need more eyes to view the code. So I put up a "for help" sign on sourceforge

jedit plugin is now compiling and is marginally functioning. Just haven't had the time to really dive into the details yet.

Well that just sucks

I don't get much time to work on posl. Maybe an hour a week. I usually do more thinking about it and design then actual implementation.

So I took some time and wrote a shell plugin for jedit. Got it working, and my system crashed before I could get it submitted to subversion.

Lets call it a kick to the teeth :)

Scala

I used to like Scala. Never found much of a need for it and I thought some of it's concepts were a bit off. But it was exciting and it was fun to play with it for a while.

But it's user base is really starting to turn me off of it.

I see scala fanatics running around and criticizing people for not liking it, or for thinking it's too complex, or for daring to work on a competing system.

Really?

Wow.