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Archive for January, 2007

The Virtues of Laziness

NOTE this post is borrowed from my old blog, with permission. One of the greatest virtues of programmers is that we are lazy. Regularly this means that we do not want to spend a lot of time and/or energy in doing stuff that bore us. We should be lazy in that common-sensical way, but we [...]

Scripting in Python, Ruby, Perl? No, in C++!

NOTE: there are a few posts about this tool in this blog already, but the cryptic name, cpsh, seems to have scared away some of you. Welcome back! I have built something that is cool and useful, objectively speaking. That something is a shell – interactive or not – using C++. It does have a [...]

Brief intro to Boost and TR1

Boost is a library of helping constructs for modern C++ development. What sets Boost apart from most other libraries is that it is infrastructural and horizontal in that it extends the vocabulary of the developer in any kind of problem solving, no matter what the domain. This quite unique feature – along with the fact [...]

cpsh 1.0

Ok, I finally finalized a first official version of cpsh, 1.0. The project is found at Google Code, where there is a download area with precompiled binaries. This version works on Mac OS X 10.4 (and probably older), with either G or Intel processor, and on Windows XP/2000. Building To build it on OS X, [...]