Well, the last two days have been very busy for me working on Wootella. My ChangeLog for the 24th and 25th consists of 46 entries. I estimate that I have coded probably around 1,500 lines in just the last 24 hours.

I finally tested my buffer routines and worked out quite a few bugs that were incurred during that coding spree. Most were simple mistakes like reversing the less-than and greater-than signs in some comparisons or forgetting to add a variable, but they were very hard to spot. This is where having a whiteboard present is very nice.

I've saved myself much time from sprinkling my code with debugging statements simply by running through my algorithms by hand using my whiteboard.

I'm not sure if I'll make my mid-August deadline for getting Wootella working, but I'm finally ready to start adding stuff to my main-loop so the next few days will be spent building up the infrastructure needed. I should also be planning ahead for routines that will be needed such as hashing routines.

sloccount --addlangall wootella/ is now reporting that I have 2,626 source lines of code. In contrast, when I take into account whitespace and comments I get 6,582 lines.