November 1998
Volume 16 Number 11
SCIENTIFC/NUMERICAL
Efficient 2-D Geometric Operations, Part 1
Carlos Moreno
"Inside" is an easy predicate for people to determine, but rather harder for computers.
A Class Hierarchy for Data Acquisition
Gualtiero Chiaia and Marco Marcon
Acquiring data and controlling devices has never been simpler, thanks to a wide range of off-the-shelf PC control cards. But it can be made more uniform and device independent.
FEATURES
Steganography: Hiding Information in Plain Sight
Dwayne Phillips
Sometimes the best form of encryption is to avoid the challenge to would-be decryptors.
Rapid Prototyping with SWIG
Daniel Blezek
Any programming problem can be solved by adding another layer of indirection, or so the old saying goes. Sometimes that layer is called a wrapper.
Skip Lists in C++
Bill Whitney
Skip lists are an interesting alternative to balanced trees, and rather easier to implement correctly.
Template Wrappers for Network Messages
Neil Sear
A general message passing service can be very simple - provided you can hide all the complexity inside a few templates.
Living without enum in Java
Michael Bridges
You give up a lot of options in moving from C++ to Java, but you don't have to give up as much as you might think.
C/C++ CONTRIBUTING EDITORS
Standard C/C++: Hash Tables
P. J. Plauger
Hash tables didn't make it into the C++ Standard, but they're too popular to ignore.
The Learning C/C++urve: Second Contact
Bobby Schmidt
Bobby concludes his stint as C/C++urve author by emptying his mailbag. Look for him in a new guise next month.
Questions & Answers: Catching Exceptions, and Flak, from Readers
Pete Becker
Whether you're handling exceptions, packing characters, or manipulating large character sets, you have to be careful of the details.