getting back to the fun in computer programming

Written by sameer in Uncategorized on Fri 31 July 2009. Tags: programming,

First, a few quotes:

A computational process is indeed much like a sorcerer's idea of a spirit. It cannot be seen or touched. It is not composed of matter at all. However, it is very real. It can perform intellectual work. It can answer questions. It can affect the world …

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on the use of pre- and post- increment iterators, and erasing elements from an STL map

Written by sameer in Uncategorized on Thu 06 March 2008. Tags: cplusplus, iterators, programming,

After spending a tense 2-3 hours trying to track down a segmentation fault, here's what I found. The explanation is subtle and obscure enough to be documented in every text book that ever claims to teach "proper" C/C++ programming practices! Maybe they already do that, and I didn't happen …

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