I believe interfaces are important enough to warrant a categorization of IOPL's (Interface Oriented Programming Languages). Here's my attempt to describe them.

For those following my blog, you know that my academic experience resulted in a degree in Physics. Even though I professionally engage in programming, I would prefer to play in the world of physics.

The Java hyper-enthusiasts have left the building, leaving a significant contingent of Java programmers behind, blinking in the bright lights without the constant drumbeat of boosterism.

Found these references to be handy...

Python used in Finnish art installation.

A bliki is a key piece in my proposed Personal Knowledge Management platform - I have some ideas, but would like to hear suggestions from others

I have just released a new version of the OOTL which contains a VList based implementation of a stack data-type and a hash table data-type.

Various web service APIs have been maturing, other technologies have become available, and my own personal thoughts have congealed such that I can create a useful personal knowledge management platform.

Okay, so Turkey Day is tomorrow. It's time for a frivolous, non-software related blog. Or not. I could tie software in at the last moment to keep things on topic. I usually do. We'll see how it goes.

From Wikipedia: "Hash tables are not persistent data structures, in the sense that there is no simple space-efficient way to update a hash table while retaining access to the previous copy of the hash table.". This is false, and Wikipedia should know why.

Isn't it wonderful to complain about something minor? Something so nit picky<Ctrl-S> that most people wouldn't care about it? Well, here's something in that vein.<Ctrl-S>

The growable array I posted about two days ago has evolved into a full-featured stack template class with more features, more tests, better performance and contract verification.

Scott Bellware just posted a link to Microsoft's guidelines for TDD on the TDD mailing list. <sigh>

I have just developed a growable array class as part of the OOTL, which outperforms std::vector on calls to push_back() by a factor of 2.5 on my installation of GCC.

The C++ Cookbook, which I cowrote with Ryan Stephens, Jonathan Turkanis, and Jeff Cogswell, is now for sale at Amazon.com and other book sellers.