This week I learned about Go and Python and IDLE

This week I learned about the Go language ('golang' for search engines) as I worked on my assembler and virtual processor. I like the Go language; it is an improved version of C without the complexity of C++. I wonder what would have happened if Go had been introduced prior to C++.

I also learned about IDLE, the Python editor (and debugger!). I found debugging a little confusing, most likely because my long experience with debuggers is mostly Visual Studio. (Although I did write an interactive debugger for 8080 assembly language programs, back when the Heathkit H-89 was popular. I called it 'BEDBUG', for "BEtter DeBUGer". The name was suggested by my father.)

And on a third project, I find I need an RS-232 breakout box. I used to have one, a Heathkit PMK-130 that I had assembled myself. I don't know where it is now; I suspect that I sold it some years ago. (And now breakout boxes are rarities, with only one model available on Amazon.com.)