Programming Topics

Comments Considered Good
Description : In our last issue, we offered the case against comments; in this issue, William Fishbourne responds in defence. He argues that it is not the practice of commenting that it is evil, it is the thoughtless commenter. by William Fishburne

Introducing CODEF/CML
Description : This article introduces a C# serialization facility that proposes a novel separation between object models, representing the serialized data, and class descriptors, representing the binding to the receiving design space. by Fernando Cacciola

Fine Tuning for lexical_cast
Description : Alexander Nasonov takes a look at Boost's lexical_cast and addresses a common user request: "make it go faster". by Alexander Nasonov

C# Generics - Beyond Containers of T
Description : Steve Love takes a look at generics in C# v2.0, how to use them to simplify code and even remove dependencies. by Steve Love

The Kohonen Neural Network Library
Description : Seweryn Habdank-Wojewódzki and Janusz Rybarski present a C++ library for users of Kohonen Neural Networks. by Seweryn Habdank-Wojewódzki , Janusz Rybarski