by Dan Zigmond
To illustrate how you can use the C++ Standard Template Library, Dan presents a filter program called "Lexicon" that takes ASCII text and outputs an alphabetized list of all the unique words in that text, ignoring case and punctuation.
by Rex Jaeschke
Rex, chair of the X3J11 committee on ANSI C, reports on recent developments concerning the C language.
by Kirit Saelensminde
While building a high-performance, object-oriented raytracer, Kirit discovered that C++ memory allocation isn't all it should be. Here's his alternative.
by James Blustein
Bit vectors provide an efficient means of implementing arrays of Boolean values. James originally implemented bit vectors to hash document signatures and analyze statistics.
by Tim Wittenburg
Alpha blending (sometimes called "image compositing") lets you combine two or more images so smoothly that people can't tell that the resulting image is a composite.
by Arthur van Hoff
Java, a language designed for Internet development, is an object-oriented, multithreaded, portable, dynamic language that's similar to C, yet simpler than C++.
by Craig A. Lindley
In this month's installment of his two-part article, Craig describes how the image-compression technique he calls "CAL" differs from JPEG. He then presents the C++ classes on which CAL is built.
by Michael J. Vilot
After five years, the ANSI and ISO C++ committees have finally released their first official document. Michael examines the most commonly used components of the proposed C++ Standard Library: iostreams, strings, and some of the containers, iterators, and algorithms included in the STL.
by Willard J. Dickerson
From a driver's perspective, antilock brake systems prevent car wheels from locking. From an embedded-system designer's viewpoint, they are complex control applications requiring sensors, software, and microcontrollers such as the Motorola 68HC05B6.
by Ernest N. Prabhakar
Ernest uses NeXT's PDO and Objective-C to implement a simple client-server application that packages a legacy application into an interoperable object and its client.
by Ira Rodens
Among other features, this recent incarnation of Symantec C++ sports a visual programming environment, class and hierarchy editors, distributed build tools, and support for templates, exceptions, and run-time type identification. Compiler author Walter Bright adds tips and techniques for optimizing C++ code.
by W. Dale Cave
NetWare Loadable Modules (NLMs) are 32-bit utilities that dynamically link into NetWare. Dale examines the complexity of writing NLMs in C++, then presents DSBROWSE, a utility that lets you view (or "walk") the NetWare Directory Services tree.
by Michael Swaine
Michael walks the Cyberdog as he reflects on this year's Apple Worldwide Developer's Conference and Apple's Internet strategy.
by Al Stevens
GNU C++ from the Free Software Foundation is part of a set of programming tools and utilities available from many online locations and several commercial CD-ROMs. After working with the compiler, Al decides this toolset is hard to beat--if you need a C++ compiler that's freely distributable and royalty-free.
edited by Bruce Schneier
In this month's column, Peter Pearson presents a fascinating look at how biochemical techniques can be applied to classical computer problems such as combinatorial optimization.
by Lynne Greer Jolitz
When you get on the net, who can you trust? Lynne examines several new books that address this question: Network Security: Private Communications in a Public World, by Charlie Kaufman, Radia Perlman, and Michael Speciner; E-Mail Security, by Bruce Schneier; Network Security, by Steven Shaffer and Alan Simon; and Network Security: How to Plan for It and Achieve It, by Richard H. Baker.
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