Interesting Small Items

by Yechiel Kimchi

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Why not using Israel highway-6 (sorry, in Hebrew)

An interview with me Published at Kuli (the Technion Students' weekly)
Oct. 18, 1999 (sorry, in Hebrew).

My suggested minimal C-Style guide

Elegant Software
and Correct and Portable Software
by Steve Summit.

C++ Portability: 1, 2,

Weird Fibonacci and a compiler bug: Question and Answer

C++ Pointers vs. Refereces and MFC: Q, A-1, A-2, A-3, A Link.

A discussion about Encapsulation and Get/Set Methods

(June 30, 2005)
A related Question and Answer

Compiler optimizations: Techniques for Scientific C++

Will C++ be faster than Fortran ? (ps)

Better compilers? A dissertation by Todd Veldhuizen

Secure Programming. I have found it via this page about C.

David Goldberg's paper
What Every Computer Scientist Must Know About Floating Point Arithmetics
(PDF, and a local compact PS)

Comparing Floating Point Numbers by Bruce Dawson

(April 21, 2007)

William Kahan's homepage

(April 21, 2007)
and Documents relating to IEEE standard 754

Debugging your code? A few suggestions by Allen Holub ( the original),
that appeared on C/C++ Users Journal.

Fagan's paper, 1976, about Code Inspection

Why extends is evil? by Allen Holub (at JavaWorld) (local)
Sequels: Why getter and setter methods are evil?
More on getters and setters

Micro$oft - Just say No (Alternatives for M$-products).

One more reason for the success of M$-Windows and more tech-articles.

David A. Wheeler explains that Microsoft is not an Innovator

David A. Wheeler discusses software innovations and software patents.

Why you should regularly check your MS-Windows log-files

(Sept. 12, 2005)

Windows 7 ^(tm) Sins is a Free Software Foundation (FSF) supported campaign,

(Jan. 23, 2010)
(in 7 languages and counting) aims at exposing the disadvantages of using MS-Windows-7
including: DRM, Security, Monopoly, Lock In, Privacy, and more.

A verbose and in-depth annotation for the new C99 draft

Some Visual C++ 6.0 Problems

Another source for Visual C++ 6.0 Problems

Visual C++ 6.0 vs. Borland/SGI/GCC A practical comparison

Intel C++ Compiler for Linux . ( base )

David O'Neal's page, with Many references

How to compile your code?.

A very interesting book:
The Software Conspiracy by Mark Minasi Chapter-1 (is an executive summary ;-).
An online PDF complete version is available.

(July 15, 2005)
A review of the book.
There is a Hebrew translation A Chapter (PDF)

and

(Aug. 12, 2005)

Why Software is so Bad? (pdf - link updated) (Alternative (html))

A commentary on the above

Read The buggy-software epidemic page (original article)

Some records of Software Bugs.

An interesting article (though commercial) about Leaky Abstractions.

A real example of extremely poorly written code, that is believed to be a good one
(otherwise they would not have displayed it ;-)

Stop Spam

Read an interesting article about "Grades Inflation".

And another one: Making the Grade ( alternative )

Should grades of Moed-B be similar to grades of Moed-A ? Read a discussion.

A student wants Moed-B to be easier.

Is it fair to deny HW grades transfer from previous semesters?

Is it fair to to modify HW#2 a week before deadline?

Do you want Moed-C? Please read this first (original)

Y2K was not a BUG.

Are you Competent ? ( A PDF version)
The original paper and a funny side to it.

May 25, 2004

See how easy it is to write unmaintainable code. (thanks to Gilad Broner)

If someone makes unnecessary comments, what is the appropriate punishment ?

A rather amusing (spoof) interview

with Bjarne Stroustrup,
called The Truth about C++ Revealed

Software development hierarchy the waterfall model

A programmer is fleeing from his peers that maintain his code

(Sept. 12, 2005)

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Miscellaneous:

OOPS... a quotation and its source (Aug. 24, 2005)

Stop Them: Please read.

C++ Bad Books

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