This site is no longer active and is available for archival purposes only. Registration and login is disabled.

PPL News.


PPL News.

Postby kornalius » Mar 15, 2004 @ 1:04pm

Hi,

I would like to inform you all that PPL (Pocket Programming Language) release is going to be delayed by a couple weeks. I am working very hard right now to make everything ready for a beta release. The beta release should be out very soon.

Here is a list of what I am working on and what is ready so far:

- 30-40 pages (not finished) user manual in Word.

- Conditional compiling #ELSEIF switch being added. The rest is all there #IFDEF, #ELSE, #ENDIF

- PPL text editor written in PPL. Will be ready this week.

- Whole PPL interface written in PPL. Conversion from C version to PPL still to be done.

- Need to remove any debugging information for release. This will be done next week.

- Added a linker last week to include special external function declarations in the main compiled file. The PPL editor is about 2k right now. So instead of having to include a ton of files with your program you will just to distribute the 2k file with the PPL.exe program.

- func statement for functions and proc for procedures. I only had proc to this date. This will be fixed this week.

- New high-level menu functions and control functions. To be done in the next few weeks.

- More samples to be included. In the next few weeks.

That is just a short list of what is going to be done in the next couple weeks and what I have done lately. There is a lot more going on, including debugging and a lot of testing.

I hope PPL will be used by a lot of people and I wish to make it a very strong product and provide as much support I can give.

Regards,
kornalius
User avatar
kornalius
pm Member
 
Posts: 1704
Joined: Dec 9, 2003 @ 6:04pm
Location: Montreal, Québec, Canada


Re: PPL News.

Postby hm » Mar 16, 2004 @ 3:03am

User avatar
hm
pm Member
 
Posts: 201
Joined: Dec 28, 2003 @ 8:47pm
Location: Seattle, WA


Postby kornalius » Mar 16, 2004 @ 4:20am

PPL is small language that do a lot. It is not intended to replace eVc or any other compilers. It is a nice alternative that allow people to code on their PPC and compiling is totally transparent to the developer. Also, a lot of the usual TEDIOUS C / C++ coding has been simplified to higher-level functions and mecanism. PPL comes with full garbage collection and string allocation is done dynamicly.

A simple window UI can be coded in PPL in just 2 or 3 lines of code. PPL also offer an easy game API. There is no variable types in PPL. You can code a nice game or program right on your PocketPC in a matter of minutes instead of hours with C/C++. PPL incorporates features from Pascal and Basic with a C-like syntax.

regards,
kornalius
User avatar
kornalius
pm Member
 
Posts: 1704
Joined: Dec 9, 2003 @ 6:04pm
Location: Montreal, Québec, Canada


Postby PointOfLight » Mar 17, 2004 @ 2:40pm

Eric Pankoke
Programmer
Point Of Light Software
http://www.polsoftware.com/
PointOfLight
pm Member
 
Posts: 525
Joined: Nov 2, 2003 @ 8:39pm


Postby kornalius » Mar 17, 2004 @ 4:10pm

User avatar
kornalius
pm Member
 
Posts: 1704
Joined: Dec 9, 2003 @ 6:04pm
Location: Montreal, Québec, Canada


Postby PointOfLight » Mar 17, 2004 @ 4:16pm

Eric Pankoke
Programmer
Point Of Light Software
http://www.polsoftware.com/
PointOfLight
pm Member
 
Posts: 525
Joined: Nov 2, 2003 @ 8:39pm


Postby egarayblas » Mar 17, 2004 @ 5:11pm

-- home of the think & tap games!
User avatar
egarayblas
pm Insider
 
Posts: 627
Joined: Sep 14, 2002 @ 1:50am
Location: Philippines


Postby kornalius » Mar 17, 2004 @ 7:43pm

User avatar
kornalius
pm Member
 
Posts: 1704
Joined: Dec 9, 2003 @ 6:04pm
Location: Montreal, Québec, Canada


Postby kornalius » Mar 17, 2004 @ 7:47pm

User avatar
kornalius
pm Member
 
Posts: 1704
Joined: Dec 9, 2003 @ 6:04pm
Location: Montreal, Québec, Canada


Postby mmtbb » Mar 18, 2004 @ 6:58am

mmtbb
pm Member
 
Posts: 277
Joined: Mar 18, 2004 @ 6:56am


Postby kornalius » Mar 18, 2004 @ 1:59pm

User avatar
kornalius
pm Member
 
Posts: 1704
Joined: Dec 9, 2003 @ 6:04pm
Location: Montreal, Québec, Canada


Postby mmtbb » Mar 19, 2004 @ 4:16am

mmtbb
pm Member
 
Posts: 277
Joined: Mar 18, 2004 @ 6:56am


Postby kornalius » Mar 19, 2004 @ 4:35am

User avatar
kornalius
pm Member
 
Posts: 1704
Joined: Dec 9, 2003 @ 6:04pm
Location: Montreal, Québec, Canada


Postby mmtbb » Mar 19, 2004 @ 9:55pm

mmtbb
pm Member
 
Posts: 277
Joined: Mar 18, 2004 @ 6:56am


Postby kornalius » Mar 21, 2004 @ 10:30pm

Sorry I am not familliar with frames, I come from the PC (Delphi) world. I don't see frames in the regular windows styles (like buttons, list ...) so therefore they will not be included in the beta release. After the initial bugs fixed, I will look further into frames and see if I can include them.

Regards,
Kornalius
User avatar
kornalius
pm Member
 
Posts: 1704
Joined: Dec 9, 2003 @ 6:04pm
Location: Montreal, Québec, Canada


Return to Pocket Programming Language (PPL)


Sort


Forum Description

Discuss this new development tool.

Moderator:

kornalius

Forum permissions

You cannot post new topics in this forum
You cannot reply to topics in this forum
You cannot edit your posts in this forum
You cannot delete your posts in this forum
You cannot post attachments in this forum