MiMi Likes Me

She slept under my head last night. She literally slept under my head. I put a chair next to me here. She's rolling around on it purring... sticking her feet up in the air for a tummy rub. Just out of Kim's garden backyard. Drew some flowers.

My software thought of the day: When glueing pieces together, and living in a strongly typed universe, be prepared for lots of mental gymnastics. The same is true in a networked universe. Also, be prepared for lots of copies of the same thing in different places. And be prepared to do lots of mapping between objects. Lots of translating. Imports and exports. Overlays in memory. If you are really smart, you can use polymorphism so that different types act the same.

But thank goodness for strong typing. Without it, how could the compiler tell us how disorganized our thought processes were?

I like the 55 rules in the famed "Effective C++ Programming" book. Note: there are 129 reviews and 5 pure golden stars. If you are not satisfied, try "More Effective C++". It has 35 more ways. In all, 90 ways to make your C++ code better. You can get the book on the standard C++ library too. It's got amazing data structures like "lists".

Some days it's not so bad being on the bottom. BTW, I'm not a cat person. In principle, I do not like cats. They are arrogant, selfish, snide little creatures. People who have "I Love Cat" bumper stickers are weird. I have a dog too. But this MiMi is so cool. She can't be a cat. Type cast.

Maybe knowledge of physics and computer types will collide, and we'll find out the fundamental fabric of everything is strings. And coincidentally so. I mean the word "string". Not to confuse a "word" with "string". That gets back to the beginning. But maybe the end too.

But I'm forgetting about "templates". With templates you can have a type generic (typeless?) C++ universe. The syntax may cause premature cross-eyedness. And types are still kinda there, but it's all much better than strong typing. You can have one list for any type you want. Like a big C Macro without all the backslashes! One code body!

Where's that kitty kitty?