The abort function is a remnant of old programming practices, and it pains me to see it in modern software. While it’s great that a
Closures have been around a long time yet have experienced a resurgence in the last decade. They were first implemented in the functional language Scheme
How often does one need to write a custom language? Many projects often shun them, but I think domain specific languages are important. They offer
Beware the casual performance test, it will lie to you. It is simple to write something that gives you timings, but it is difficult to
I thought a good way to start Cloverleaf would be to write a simple expression parser. In a language expressions are those collection of symbols
Each new project, whether a standalone program, or a component for an existing program, faces a choice of programming language. Just using what is most
Casting in C++ is a confusing jumble of unclear and dangerous operations. It mixes unrelated concepts. It introduces ambiguities and redundancies. It’s an essential but
Efficient yet confused. Powerful but unsafe. So is the nature of C++ object allocation and instantiation.
C introduced it and C++ mastered it. The hellish world of implicit conversion and type promotion. A system which silently modifies, truncates, rounds, and otherwise
“goto”: the demonized programming construct. This little expression allows you to jump to somewhere else in the code while skipping the expressions in between. Opponents