Literate programming is the methodology for software development proposed by Don Knuth and used by himself to build the TeX system for document preparation. TeX is the system used as the basis for LaTeX, which is itself used by everyone in science and mathematics to write technical documents. The original version of literate programming was…
In a previous post I suggested that optimizing a program should only be done with knowledge of how time is spent. The reason is that we usually don’t know where a program is spending most of its time. This results in a lot of energy being wasted in optimizing what doesn’t need improvement. Similarly, a…
C++ has evolved as a language that encompasses many modern programming techniques. In this way, C++ has managed to stay relevant, despite the many issues that it may have compared to safer languages such as Java or C#. In C++, one can decide the set of features that will be used from within a large…