Just a short note on an item that bugs me about Java. In C++, I tend to use exactly three kinds of method parameters.
Easy peasy in C++. In Java? Uh, I pass all objects by reference. Continue reading »
Programming
I recently heard about a Car Talk puzzler. I don’t listen to Car Talk as much as I used to. Anyway, you can read about the puzzler and the fellow who solved it here. This is an excerpt.
During Christmas week on the popular National Public Radio show Car Talk, the weekly puzzler required listeners to find the longest English word that remains a valid English word as you remove its letters one at a time, but without rearranging any of the letters. For example: sprite, spit, pit, it, I. There are many such words, but, as Barr discovered, only one with 11 letters.
So, only one word with eleven letters: complecting. Maybe. I’m not convinced, but finding out is easy.
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Grrr. I really wish Java had either:
In the interim, I offer the following Java code to the world. Does it help? Use at your own risk.
I like Java. Well, that is, I don’t dislike Java as much as I dislike most other langauges. I’d honestly prefer ML, but I’d be without the massive ball of mud that is the Java class libraries, the wonder that is Eclipse, and ANTLR. I need these. It’s a weakness. Continue reading »
