Tag: C++
Recently I came across a nice article by Jose Crespo, where the author stresses that the future of programming revolves around the application of math concepts such as Functor, Monads, Folds, etc. In addition, he argues that familiarity with C/C++ is essential in this modern AI age. The author goes through a toy example that uses […]
The type trait “std::is_scoped_enum<T>::value” was introduced in C++23 to check whether the type “T” is a scoped enum type. Another way to use this is std::is_scoped_enum_v<T>. Before getting into this trait in detail, let us briefly recap the differences between unscoped and scoped enums. Unscoped Enums Unscoped enums are the old-style enums. Look at the […]
std::tuple is a widely used abstraction in C++ and has been around since C++11. It is a generalization of std::pair. std::tie is convenient when we want to create a tuple of lvalue references to existing variables. It is a function template commonly used to unpack a tuple into individual objects. In the above example, we […]
This is the third and the last article in the series “Why Learn Language-XYZ?”. I talked about Prolog and Lisp earlier. The present article is on C++. Once you have gained reasonable proficiency with Prolog and Lisp, you are ready to learn C++! In my view, C++ is a complex language and requires sufficient maturity […]
Title: Embracing Modern C++ Safely Authors: John Laos, Vittorio Romeo, Rostislav Khlebnikov, and Alisdair Meredith Publisher: Pearson Education, Inc. Year: 2022 C++ is a complex language. Fortunately, we have several good books (and other online material) for programmers at various levels. A few weeks ago, I had reviewed and recommended “Beautiful C++”, book suitable for […]
When you program in Rust, especially in a non-trivial project, there is a good chance that you will need to call “external” functions (usually, C/C++) that are available in a DLL (we are talking about the Windows platform here). It could be because you wish to re-use some code that you have earlier written in […]
Traits in Rust are an amazing feature and contribute significantly to the expressive power of the language. For someone coming to Rust with a C++ background (like me), Traits appear to be quite similar to Abstract Classes in C++. Although they are similar, Traits have certain characteristics that set them apart. In this article, I […]
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 […]
iLexicon is an “intelligent” dictionary that can be used to build Natural Language applications. I have two implementations, one in Lisp and another in Prolog. Both implementations are memory-based, in order to speed up performance. I have written several articles referencing it, for example see this. LiteDB is a NoSQL database for .NET. I […]
In the last article, I showed how we can invoke C# methods from LispWorks Enterprise Edition, through the COM/Automation interface. That approach relied on invoking the Automation methods dynamically, without depending on the Type library (*.tlb). In this article, I will discuss the other approach, which uses the Type library. According to LispWorks documentation, this […]
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