The Inform 7 interactive fiction system parses human readable English assertions and builds an interactive system from your statements. I have only played with it briefly, but take the following example:
The Inform 7 interactive fiction system parses human readable English assertions and builds an interactive system from your statements. I have only played with it briefly, but take the following example:
| I was reminded of a recent xkcd comic while installing Inform 7 today: [img_assist | nid=401 | title=Inform 7 Installer | desc= | link=popup | align=none | width=640 | height=500] (yellow highlight [poorly] added by me). This is not a knock against Inform’s installer, I’ve noticed it several times lately. |
Jeff at Coding Horror recently asked, “Is Open Source Experience Overrated?” I think his question was asked a bit tongue-in-cheek, but it is something I had been pondering lately and was already considering writing about.
When declaring a template you can choose either “class” or “typename” for a template parameter. Example:
This Monday I had to put down my 11 year old Rottweiler. She had just turned 11 this week, in fact. For nearly 1.5 years now we had struggled with her health. She had been a picky eater for most of her life but had gotten much worse about it, so my wife started making her homemade food. She would take a new food for a few days and quickly start refusing it, which made feeding her very difficult.
The first Project Euler problem is to calculate the sum of all integers below 1000 which are divisible by either 3 or 5. My solution is implemented entirely in C++ templates. The value is recursively calculated at compile time. The template specialization struct Problem1<0> stops the recursion and returns 0. To compile this code with gcc you must expand the maximum allowed template recursion depth to at least 1000. ` g++ EulerProblem1.cpp -ftemplate-depth-1000`
Project Euler presents a rather extensive list of problems which require a combination of programming skills and math skills to solve.
The Portable Ubuntu for Windows team has made available an Ubuntu distribution that runs fully inside of Windows using the coLinux kernel. The concept is fascinating, but it does fall down in a few places. First of all, on my Acer Aspire One, it takes a very long time to get started, which is probably fair because it is starting up an entire OS inside of the current one. Also, it seems to use a significant amount of RAM. This causes a lot of swapping on this 1G machine. Finally, the recent news about the project is related to some documentation updates, not to a new release. The currently available release is from mid last year and is of Ubuntu 804.
If you search around for how to build Visual Studio projects from the command line you will find references to the DevEnv executable. When working with Visual C++ Express, however, that tool does not exist.
If you are programming a Windows Script in VBScript and need to retrieve the output of an external command you can use the following simple function: