Every project for me seems to go through the same loop. Have exciting idea. Do some quick prototyping, making messy code, but it works. Refactor into “cleaner” code that deals with some structural bugs. Get it working back to where it was before. Go “Wow!” it works. And then silence. What’s next? Every step is so hard and the trail of the past gets longer and longer.
I have been working on a math parser. I can, indeed, parse/evaluate arithmetic, functions, and I can graph those functions. Next is implementing the vast array of functions and graphing stuff into the language. None of that is hard. Implementing new language features should be fairly easy such as set notation. For example, a replace of for in would be {f(x)| x in A} Very simple. Very mathematical. One could throw in conditions. A sequence can replace for loops, an infinite sequence with a “good enough” condition could be a while loop replacement, etc. Much of that is easy to implement.
So why do I write this instead of code? Because what do I do next? In short, I lack a good project plan.
And this happens all the time. I try to mak a plan, but I try this and that, just to see if it works, and all of a sudden, my old plan is completely irrelevant.
I am a cowboy programmer.
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