Tag: syntax
Use the Bench Calculator to Program Mathematics
This third article in the mathematical journey through open source takes you through the functional power of the bench calculator.
After going through basic programming...
Lisp: Tears of Joy, Part 7
Lisp has been hailed as the world's most powerful programming language. But only the top percentile of programmers use it because of its cryptic...
Getting Started with SystemTap
If programming is an art, then debugging is even more so. To be a good programmer, one must master debugging. We have seen some...
GDB: Logging Function Parameters, Part 1
Sometimes an application's release version crashes in particular scenarios, but the debug version does not -- and to make matters worse, the call-trace gets...
Lisp: Tears of Joy, Part 6
Lisp has been hailed as the world's most powerful programming language -- but only the top percentile of programmers use it, because of its...
Lisp: Tears of Joy, Part 2
Lisp has been hailed as the world's most powerful programming language. But only the top percentile of programmers use it, because of its cryptic...
A Quick-Start Practical Guide to Drupal Module Development
In this article, we attempt to build a simple module by learning some basics of the Drupal Module Core.
You can extend Drupal by developing...
Joy of Programming: Language Transition Bugs
There are subtle differences between languages like C, C++, Java and C#. Programmers transitioning from one language to another should beware of such differences.
When...