January 2008 - Posts

• Immutability in C# Part 10: A double-ended queue

  Based on the comments, the implementation of a single-ended queue as two stacks was somewhat mind-blowing for a number of readers. People, you ain't seen nothing yet. Before we get into the actual bits and bytes of the solution, think for a bit about Read More... Posted Tuesday, January 22, 2008 7:15 AM by Eric Lippert | 28 Comments Filed under: C#, Immutability

• Immutability in C# Part Nine: Academic? Plus my AVL tree implementation

  Good Monday morning all. I have received a lot of good comments on this series so far that I thought I would speak to a bit. Academic? First and foremost, a number of people have asked questions which could be summed up as "isn't this just an academic Read More... Posted Monday, January 21, 2008 4:13 PM by Eric Lippert | 20 Comments Filed under: C#, Immutability

• Immutability in C# Part Eight: Even More On Binary Trees

  Last year we declared a relatively simple interface to represent an immutable binary tree. We noticed that it was different from every other interface that we've declared so far, in that it really said nothing at all about the immutability of the tree. Read More... Posted Friday, January 18, 2008 11:02 AM by Eric Lippert | 7 Comments Filed under: C#, Immutability

• Recent Book News, Part Two

  Two additional quick notes about books: I am also pleased to announce the availability of the C# 3.0 Cookbook , for which I was again lucky enough to be one of the technical reviewers. Many thanks to the authors for giving the shout-out to this blog in Read More... Posted Wednesday, January 16, 2008 10:32 AM by Eric Lippert | 4 Comments Filed under: VSTO, C#, Books

• Recent Book News, Part One

  Good day and Happy New Year everyone, I hope you had a restful and joyous festive holiday season. I sure did. Before I get back into my series on immutable data structures I have a few news items regarding books. First off, I am pleased to announce the Read More... Posted Wednesday, January 09, 2008 9:04 AM by Eric Lippert | 7 Comments Filed under: C#, Books