--NoDr - YGO--

Fisrt of all, let me say I am not English native, (easy to see isn’t it - so please be tolerant - also you can send me corrections if you want )
Because most of the thread/blog I usually read are prefixed with Dr Wise or Dr XY I have chose the No Dr. (guess why).

I am a 50 years old man and I have started my professionnal life, spending 15 years in building electronic board with C.A.D system before understanding software was more fun.
I am entirely self made in this area. Starting with Fortran-4 for writing some CAD little tools I have learned a lot of langages like Lisp prolog C/C++ VB Python Perl (and a few on smalltalk /squeek) and more recently Erlang and Factor.

I have worked fo lots of compagny, including Olivetti in multimédia, internet(web) and cooperative work (workflow).
Nowaday I am working for Witbe (http://www.witbe.com) I am mainly in charge of our Linux/Apache/Tomcat servers and developping some code with J2E. Despite my attemps Witbe never accept to try Erlang against Java.

Now I have 20 years of professionnal life software related, and I always like to follow the most recent development (Internet and Google are our friend ) .

I am mainly interessed by softawe development (Eralng, Factor) and electronic (PIC, FPGA and Robotics) and I plan to make a little domotic heat controller for my home.
My main interests centers are:

• FACTOR

  Factor is an amazing new langage and have a very impressive potential even if not yet ready for industry.
   

• ERLANG

  Erlang is strong industrial language with software fault tolerent built in. I really like the asynchronous lite thread, the distributing system and the tools provided with. Erlang in my mind is far before Java even if little bit slower and not well adapted for GUI programming.

• PIC Forth compiler

  I want to build a domotic heat controller. Master clever part on PC connected through a serial line to a Slave PIC (16F877) based. The PIC will be in charge of measument of temperature and control of power relay. More on this one day on my blog (if I find enough free time (this is the most difficult part of this project
  Programming a PIC in assembly is a tiedous task and I will probably use PICFORTH because it provides better programming level, fast and lite code generation and smaller code than C .

• ROBOTICS & ELECTRONICS

  I am also very puzzled by robotics evolution and I usally read LA VIE ARTIFICIELLE.
  I had a look at FPGA but have not really used them … a little bit expensive for just playing .. this is a pity because I am pretty sure there is a lot of things to do with.
  I don’t know if I am clever enough to manage work on it but one of my dreams would be to built a FPGA CPU stack machine based on Factor distributed with direct asynchronous data link to other CPU.
  Something in the spirit of good old transputer but with Erlang asynchronous distributed concept re-write in Factor. After that why not built a kind of “HYPER CUBE COMPUTER” (6 direct fast echanges links like face of a cube to direct connection to others proximity processors in an asynchronous way).
  Nowadays everybody try hard to make fast raw CPU but our brain is far far to be fast and probably not use complex mathematic concept models … but it is a very very highly parallel system with probably simple task on each node. So my Hyper Cube Computer should be a good candidate isn’t it … but don’t that only a dream, I am not really sure to be enough skilled to build a such CPU on a FPGA and I am quite sure I am not rich enough to acquire needed parts.