Many newer object oriented languages such as Java and Swift have a dedicated interface type for defining the methods of a superclass. C++ does not. What C++ does provide is purely virtual classes, which function in ess
A couple of years back I interviewed for an SDE role at Amazon. For those not familiar with the Amazon hiring process, after you pass there screening technical test, and a personality evaluation, the final part before being given an offer involves a mu
As Bob Dylan once said "The times they are a-changing", and changing they are. Modern computer architectures are making heavier use of more cores and ever increasing levels of cache. The order in which instructions are execute
Searching is a fundamental operation in computers, with a great deal of research put towards developing both efficient data structures and their corresponding algorithms. Search trees are a corner stone of that work, and to hig
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The visitor pattern: OOP takes on the Expression Problem
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Improving mgcLisp's define syntax
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Separating the Men from the Boys, Knuth Style
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Reducing rotations during deletion from AVL trees
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Parsing Lisp: From Data To Code
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Swiz Heaps: A deterministic modification of Randomized Meldable Heaps
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Let's talk Eval/Apply
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BST Deletion: Removal By Merge
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Dictionary Based Compression: The LZW Algorithm
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Taking Action: Compiling Procedures to P-Code