Anyone who has ever had the pleasure of working with 'C style' strings aka NULL terminated character arrays. Has at some point stopped and remarked about the terrible choice of implementation when it came to representing string
UPDATE: As of 2024 I recommend using the algorithms outlined in this post instead.
Many newer object oriented languages such as Java and Swift have a dedicated interface type for defining the methods of a superclass. C++ does not. What C++ does provide is purely virtual classes, which function in ess
A couple of years back I interviewed for an SDE role at Amazon. For those not familiar with the Amazon hiring process, after you pass there screening technical test, and a personality evaluation, the final part before being given an offer involves a mu
As Bob Dylan once said "The times they are a-changing", and changing they are. Modern computer architectures are making heavier use of more cores and ever increasing levels of cache. The order in which instructions are execute
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Procedural Map Generation with Binary Space Partitioning
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Exact Match String Searching: The Knuth-Morris-Pratt Algorithm
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The visitor pattern: OOP takes on the Expression Problem
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Improving mgcLisp's define syntax
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Separating the Men from the Boys, Knuth Style
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Reducing rotations during deletion from AVL trees
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Parsing Lisp: From Data To Code
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Swiz Heaps: A deterministic modification of Randomized Meldable Heaps
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Let's talk Eval/Apply
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BST Deletion: Removal By Merge