Lightweight Languages At MIT's recent workshop on lightweight languages, implementors of languages such as Ruby and Lisp debated the finer points of closures, macros and monads. Mon, 9 Dec 2002
The Language of the Thousand Turtles StarLogo applies the educational language Logo to the problem ofmodeling decentralized systems. Mon, 14 Oct 2002
Smalltalk at 30 Martin takes a look at Smalltalk, 30 years after its inception. Mon, 16 Sep 2002
Programming the Graphics Pipeline NVIDIA's new Cg language—C for Graphics—allows a programmer to control the vertex and pixel processors of a GPU (graphics processing unit) in a high-level language. Mon, 5 Aug 2002
.NET Books With the release of the .NET Framework and Visual Studio .NET, books on .NET programming are streaming out of the floodgates. Martin tells you which ones are worth picking out of the flotsam. Mon, 3 Jun 2002
Design Trumps Debugging Martin recalls a classic, true real-time debugging story, explores real-time modeling, and takes a quick look at Together Control Center 6.0. Mon, 6 May 2002
Generating a Web Site from a Database Martin thought it would only take a couple of hours to generate a web site from a database and a Python script... Mon, 14 Jan 2002
What Zope Did Wrong (and How It's Being Fixed) Dr. Dobb's talks with Lennart Regebro about the many things that
Zope 2 did right and did wrong. Lennart has also been one of the driving
forces behind Five, the integration of Zope 3 technologies into Zope 2.
Ubuntu and the Software Around It Dr. Dobb's interviews Ubuntu's Gerry Carr about the Linux-based Ubuntu
operating sytem and the application lifecycle tools -- such as the
recently released Launchpad -- that surround it.
In this volume of Best of BYTE, we explore the emergence of some heuristic algorithms. Although we have only scratched the surface of this intriguing subject, we hope we've suggested the potential of the synthesis of heuristics and algorithms.
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