Programming
Concepts, introduced in C++20, are predicates that act as contraints on template parameters. As you would expect, the nice thing is that the constraint checking happens as part of template instantiation at compile time and not at run time! Since templates can have type as well as non-type parameters, Concepts can be applied to both […]
We have been exploring the Ring Programming Language in the last two articles. Ring is a dynamic programming language with many interesting features. In today’s article, let us try to understand how this dynamic behavior is reflected in Classes and Objects. In Ring, we can define classes at runtime. One way to do this is to execute […]
In my last article, I had written about how easy it is to execute Ring code from within C/C++. Today’s article takes a look at the “Loop” command. This command is very similar to “continue” in many languages such as C++, Java, Python. etc. It is used to skip the rest of the statements inside […]
The Ring Programming Language, designed by Mahmoud Fayed, has been around since 2016. I came to know of it quite accidentally two weeks ago when I received a promotional email from Apress about their book “Beginning Ring Programming” by Mansour Ayouni, published in 2020. I immediately did a google search about the language and finding […]
In the last article, I talked about determining sentence types automatically. Another interesting task is to generate the “negation” of a given sentence. Example-1: Sentence => “My teacher lives nearby” Negation => “My teacher does not live nearby” Example-2: Sentence => “She did not like that speech” Negation => “She liked that speech” I have […]
Sentences in English can be classified into the following common types: – Simple sentence (“I am drinking coffee”) – Compound sentence (“He came home with his school friend and they had an enjoyable evening”) – Complex sentence (“Whenever my dog barks, I give him some biscuit”) – Imperative sentence (“Please keep quiet”) – Interrogative sentence […]
Snake and Ladder is a popular game that originated in India and later spread to other parts of the world. Even now it is a hit among kids in South India, where people use the traditional game board, coins and dice. Last week, I had a chance to play this game with my 5-year-old granddaughter, who […]
Visual Prolog has its roots in Turbo Prolog, which was popularized by Borland in the mid 1980s. It is developed and supported by PDC A/S, Denmark. So how is Visual Prolog different from other Prolog implementations out there, for example, SWI-Prolog or Sicstus Prolog? Here are the key differences: 1) It is not an ISO Prolog […]
WH-Questions are questions that begin with the following words: – Who (“Who came here yesterday?”) – What (“What is the goal of this project?”) – When (“When can I visit my parents?”) – Where (“Where did he go?”) – Why (“Why is everyone running away?”) – Which (“Which is the book you recommend?”) – How […]
Eager Future2 is a Common Lisp library that facilitates parallel computation. It is based on the idea of a “future” that acts as a “proxy” for a concurrently computed expression. Unlike the “lparallel” library that I had discussed in the last article, this library does not give us control over the number of “worker threads” […]
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