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Literate programming , invented in 1981 by the same Donald Knuth who wrote The Art of Computer Programming and the document language TeX, is a technique in which a program is written as a human-oriented document interspersing discussion and code. The
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I'm a fervent fan of using code generator tools wherever possible to make your life easier. Although they come with issues related to effective building, diagnostics, and debugging, the amount of value they add to your application is immense: they can
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Today I'll talk about multiple dispatch, a programming language feature that increases flexibility of method calls and eliminates the need for awkward pattern constructions, at the cost of some additional complexity in the dispatch algorithm. The Visitor
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Although one of my favorite languages, C++ has a number of issues that make it difficult to write and maintain. One of the worst is its compilation model: you import declarations using fragile literal text inclusion ( #include ), and you have to waste
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