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Out of curiosity, what are the origins of the name 'main' for a program entry point?
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My office has a suite of web reporting engines written in VB. All in all there's about 300 reports with varying displays depending on the data being input into them. I'm trying to establish an efficient way to deal with such a major diversity, but am struggling with creating a system that won't…
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I have been looking to expand my methodologies to better involve Unit testing, and i stumbled upon Behavioral Driven Design (Namely Cucumber, and a few others). I am quite intrigued by the concept as i have never been able to properly design top down, only because keeping track of the design gets…
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I would like to write myself a pretty printer for java using bison and flex. I have written a pretty printer for a script language, but I was only writing visitors, which made the printing. How can I turn a program using my formal grammar into a tree of nodes (made using C++ classes), that afterwards…
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For my current job I am writing some long-running (think hours to days) scripts that do CPU intensive data-processing. The program flow is very simple - it proceeds into the main loop, completes the main loop, saves output and terminates: The basic structure of my programs tends to be like so:
<import…
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I'm writing a cherrypy app and I was wondering what the best way is for structuring my handlers and code for larger applications?
I realize assignment is simple trough cherrypy.root, but what are some practices for writing the handlers and assigning them?
(Allow me to prove my confusion!)
My initial…
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If you had to design a study program, with a breadth-of-programming-languages requirement, which stated that the student should be exposed to all major concepts and methodologies that can be taught through (at the minimum) 6 programming languages, which programming languages would you choose to teach…
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(Since I just posted this in another question, but my browser had to be annoying and submit it without content first, here it is again:)
I'm a fan of clean code. I like my languages to be able to express what I'm trying to do, but I like the syntax to mirror that too.
For example, I work on a lot…
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Hi folks,
I am going to develop a facebook game as topic for my thesis.
I am wondering which programming languages i should choice.
I am used to programming in .NET. But i am also comfortable in C++ and Java.
I don't want to use Flash as the graphical frontend since i don't like it.
So i guess…
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Are there any objective measures for measuring the power of programming languages? Turing-completeness is one, but it is not particularly discriminating. I also remember there being a few others measures of power which are more limited versions (like finite-state-autonoma), but is there any objective…
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I'm a fan of clean code.
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