On Software and Languages

In C++  if you write a  cooking_meat() function it returns NOT a new piece of meat, but one with a changed state. In Clojure we have: ...

Recently, I realized an interesting little fact when comparing LISP-type and C-type languages. It may seem that, by their design and philos...

Warning : this post is about how we learn but in reality we don't. You may know the "birthday paradox" - it's a cute l...

In this blog I'd like to give you the impression that I'd know everything ;-), but, alas, that's not true. Mainly because with ...

Maybe you've heard it already, but the planned C++14 standard will be a small, bugfixing release for the C++11 specification and not a ...

As I started several C++ blog posts but cannot finish a single one, there's definitely time for some some life-changing advice! This c...

Some time ago I wrote a post about emulating named parameters in C++. But in the meantime I discovered another possibility of low-cost emu...