Initially designed in the 1970's as a "portable assembly" language to facilitate implementing Pascal compilers on the varying computer architectures of the day, P-Code is the progenator of all modern bytecode interpreters. The success of the UCSD Pasca
Programs rarely exist in isolation. With a few exceptions, a program requires a supporting environment within which to run. For a compiled language, this can be handled by the operating system or in more extreme cases like micr
When comparing C and C++ to other popular programming languages like Java, C#, and python one of the big issues people bring up is that you "have to" manage dynamic memory manually. Aside from manual memory management not being nearly as big a deal as
A couple of years back I interviewed for an SDE role at Amazon. For those not familiar with the Amazon hiring process, after you pass there screening technical test, and a personality evaluation, the final part before being given an offer involves a mu
If you've been following along with my latest series of posts, then welcome to part four of my journey to compile a high level language to my virtual stack machine.