Forum: Computer Science Oct 30th, 2004 |
| Replies: 2 Views: 28,257 Code Style
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Comments are useful for telling people WTF this code is supposed to do, but there's another aspect to readability - formatting!
Most languages allow a programmer to... |
Forum: Computer Science Oct 6th, 2004 |
| Replies: 2 Views: 14,631 The Maintenance-Time Error
The original author didn't comment, used crappy and inconsistent code style, and obfuscated because it made him/her feel clever. So now when the system needs updating, the... |
Forum: Computer Science Oct 6th, 2004 |
| Replies: 6 Views: 4,009 Haskell is a functional programming language. Similar in that respect to LISP or Scheme, but it is a lot more rigorous about types and formal math. I had the great luck to be in the 'guinea-pig'... |
Forum: Computer Science Oct 6th, 2004 |
| Replies: 9 Views: 5,087 lmao.
Might I just bring this down to earth a bit and ask if you don't think that many bafrickingzillion possible distinct hashes will be ENOUGH?? |
Forum: Computer Science Oct 6th, 2004 |
| Replies: 2 Views: 3,801 That's exactly the question that logarithms will answer. Were invented to answer.
Going back to the definition: a^x=b --> log_a(b)=x, we have 36 as the base, and we know the result of the... |
Forum: Computer Science Oct 6th, 2004 |
| Replies: 9 Views: 5,218 lol.
Winzip doing a pretty good job, huh? |
Forum: Computer Science Oct 6th, 2004 |
| Replies: 4 Views: 6,517 Does Windows filter the input so much that typing ALT+(ASCII) codes won't produce the right results?
*Nuez goes to check.
Yeah, guess it does. :rolleyes: |
Forum: Computer Science Oct 6th, 2004 |
| Replies: 3 Views: 5,622 For obvious reasons I can't recite code from memory that'll do what you're asking for, but there does exist a regexp-->DFA algorithm...on paper. You're probably already familiar with it, it's the one... |