3 days ago by bulldozer00

In C++ programming, everybody knows that when an application requires lots of dynamic insertions into (and deletions from) an ordered sequence of elements, a linked list is much faster than a vector. Err, is it? Behold the following performance graph that Bjarne Stroustrup presented during his keyno ...

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4 days ago by bulldozer00

In Bjarne Stroustrup‘s keynote speech at “ Going Native 2012“, he presented the standard C library qsort() function signature as an example of ghastly style that he’d wish programmers and (especially) educators would move away from: Bjarne then presented an alternative style, which not only yields c ...

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45 days ago by homepaddock

39 Titus, Roman emperor was born (d. 81). 1066 Granada massacre: A Muslim mob stormed the royal palace in Granada, crucified Jewish vizier Joseph ibn Naghrela and massacred most of the Jewish population of the city. 1460 Wars of the Roses: Battle of Wakefield. 1835 Charles Darwin left New Zealand af ...

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100 days ago by bulldozer00

One of the traits I admire most about Bjarne Stroustrup is that he’s not afraid to look “ imperfect” and point out C++’s weaknesses in certain application contexts. In his “ Technical Report On C++ Performance“, Mr. Stroustrup helpfully cautions real time programmers to think about the risks of usin ...

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156 days ago by bulldozer00

In general, I’m not a fan of committee “ output“. However, I do appreciate the work of the C++ ISO committee. In “Evolving a language in and for the real world”, Bjarne Stroustrup articulates the constraints under which the C++ committee operates: Bjarne goes on to describe how, if the committee ope ...

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173 days ago by bulldozer00

In “ Learning Standard C++ as a New Language“, Bjarne Stroustrup gives a slightly different take on the waterfall method of software-intensive system development: “… treating programming as merely the handmaiden of analysis and design doesn’t work either. The approach of postponing actual discussion ...

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179 days ago by MostlyTech

“On Friday August 12th 2011, the results for the final ISO ballot on C++0x came in, and they (the ISO C++ Standards Committee) were unanimous in favor of approving the new C++0x (for now unofficially known as C++11) object-oriented programming language standard which is intended to replace the exist ...

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186 days ago by bulldozer00

In the preface to the 2006 Japanese translation of “ The Design and Evolution of C++“, Bjarne Stroustrup writes about how the C++ STL containers/iterators/algorithms approach to generic programming came into being. Of particular interest to me was how he struggled with the problem of “ intrusive” co ...

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190 days ago by bulldozer00

On Bjarne Stroustrup’s FAQ page, he state’s his opinion on the utility of object oriented programming: The strength of OOP is that there are many problems that can be usefully expressed using class hierarchies – the main weakness of OOP is that too many people try to force too many problems into a h ...

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198 days ago by Jonathan Tappan

“I have always wished for my computer to be as easy to use as my telephone; my wish has come true because I can no longer figure out how to use my telephone.” — Danish computer scientist Bjarne Stroustrup via. CLARIFICATION: Bjarne Stroustrup is the inventor of the C++ programming language. Doonsbur ...

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