Monthly Archives: June, 2009
Should Fortran be taught to Undergraduates?
The following post has some very good thoughts about what languages to teach undergrads:
Walking Randomly » Should Fortran be taught to Undergraduates?.
Essentially he suggests starting with Python, NumPy & matplotlib which are both excellent and free. He briefly mentions MATLAB in the post as well, but doesn’t say much about whether or not to use [...]
LuaRPC Update Jun 6, 2009
LuaRPC has grown a few additional features again. We are now able to handle calling functions that are registered on tables and not just in the global environment. This is crucial to be able to use modules where where functions are registered at something like modulename.function or modulename.subtable.function. I’ve also stripped out some now unneeded [...]
LuaRPC Update Jun 1, 2009
I’ve got a few more issues to attend to before I’m going to put the LuaRPC code into the eLua trunk. One thing that I’m thinking about that I’ve not yet come up with a satisfactory solution for is dealing with connection state. The original code used sockets, and therefore the protocol makes some assumptions [...]
