It is a fact of programming that software written in modern programming language is divided into multiple files. That is all programmers use text editors such as vim, emacs, and eclipse, that have facility to work with and move easily between files. With all these facilities, however, there are times when what you really want…
One of these days, I was looking at patterns of coding in some of the applications that I work with — written in Java and C#. I was then interested in seeing why our group happened to use hash tables so frequently in these languages. This was puzzling to me because I am used to…
There are some data structures that have wide applicability in several situations. One such example are trie data structures, which can be used in as varied situations as in compilers, text editors, and related applications. This afternoon I had some spare time, so I decided to implement a trie data structure (something that I always…