Articles tagged C++
- Looping forever and ever
- Syntactic Sugar
- Macros with halos
- Fixing header file dependencies. A simple script to check header files are self contained
- Stop the clock, squash the bug. Which is better, a clock which loses a minute a day or one which is stopped? An investigation into how we find and fix software defects.
- Top Ten Percent. The most efficient way to sort the top 10% of a collection.
- Top Ten Tags. Choosing the right algorithm to select the N largest items from a collection.
- From Hash Key to Haskell. A note on keys, characters, smileys, digraphs and Haskell.
- Elegance and Efficiency. Must elegant code be efficient? This article investigates.
- Big City Skyline Puzzle. Comments on a novel computer science puzzle. When machine resources are scarce, a compiled language offers precise control.
- Ongoing Peer Review
- Pitching Python in three syllables
- Koenig’s first rule of debugging. The problems caused by the C++ compilation model, dependencies and cryptic compile diagnostics. If an expert like Andrew Koenig can’t get it right, what hope for the rest of us?
- Shameful Names
- He Sells Shell Scripts to Intersect Sets. The Unix command shell contains a lot of what I like in a programming environment: it’s dynamic, high-level, interpreted, flexible, succinct. This article shows the Unix tools in action.
- The Third Rule of Program Optimisation
- Evolving Python in and for the real world
- Introducing Java
- Mixing Python and C++
- Release then Test
- Casualties in the great computer shootout. An investigation into various dimensions of some speed benchmark programs.
- Retro-fitting coding standards
- Code Craft
- Printed C++ Journals
- Review of Pete Becker’s TR1 Book
- Smart Pointers, Dumb Programmers. A note describing how a smart pointer tripped me up.
- Joined Output and the Fencepost Problem. Items and the spaces between them: some notes on the fencepost problem and joining up strings.
- Computer Language Complexity
- Complacency in the computer industry
- The Lazy Builder’s Complexity Lesson. A discussion of algorithmic complexity, and a demonstration of how the C++ standard library allows programmers to write code which is both concise and efficient.
- String literals and regular expressions. An article about string literals, escape sequences, regular expressions, and the problems encountered when mixing these together.
- There’s no escape??!
- Parsing C++
- Are List Comprehensions the Wrong Way Round?
- Message to Self. What’s this?
- Octal Literals
- A Subversion Pre-Commit Hook. How to install and test a simple Subversion pre-commit hook script.
- Binary Literals
- Readable Code
- Built in Type Safety?
- The case against TODO. A neat label for work in progress or an easy way to disguise the flaws in a codebase?
- Metaprogramming is Your Friend. An investigation into metaprogramming techniques used by lazy C, C++, Lisp and Python programmers.
- A Mini-Project to Decode a Mini-Language
- Code in Comments. Don't comment out dead code, delete it!