Computer Languages

Most of the documents here are related to computer programming.

The ECL Language

These documents are related to ECL and the HPCC from HPCCSystems. It should be noted that whilst I am one of the architects of the HPCC and the inventor of the ECL language the documents below are mine and mine only; they do not state a position of HPCCSystems and are not endorsed by them.

Bible Search in ECL using the HPCC
Bible Search in ECL Part II (The Graph Statement)
Bible Search in ECL Part III (Make a query available through SOAP)
BuildCase An ECL macro to write ECL case statements to encode a particular set of strings as numbers

Programming Philosophy

These older documents are flavoured towards programming in the Clarion environment. Clarion is a 4^th Generation RAD tool that I worked upon for the best part of the nineties. It is available from Soft Velocity and is just about unbeatable for application level programming.

Notes on my particular approach to programming (and life!)

Computer Aided Disaster This article takes a look at the whole role of specifications and argues for code quality as a key to sound implementations as opposed to rigourous adherance to specification
Nobugs - No Chance I'm sure we've all heard of zero defects, we probably all think it is a good idea, but is it really?
Offensive Programming Defensive programming is designed to keep bugs in your system? Don't believe me? Take a look at this article
Passing the buck How to write code that can be passed on to someone else, and how to pass it on.
Clarion for Schizonphrenics A look at the use of object interfaces when coding offensively

Perl Programs

Here are some links to some Perl programs that may be of use. If you think you could use any of the code let me know and I'll send it to you:

Quizzes The Perl is a little hidden here but each quiz link actually constructs an html page from an ascii script. The page construction happens in Perl
Celsius & Farenheightt To convert between Celsius & Farenheight measures
Word Study Bible word study and verse fetch
Scripture Memory Drill A scripture memory drill program
Manuscript Relationship Calculator A program to ascertain the relationships betweens New Testament MSS - performs clustering from within perl!