C, the Enduring Legacy of Dennis Ritchie
This is an interesting and moving read. A tribute to the late Dennis Ritchie delivered at Dennis Ritchie Day at Bell Labs, Murray Hill, NJ, September 7, 2012
The Mysterious etaoin shrdlu
I just love this story, from a preview trailer of Linotype: The Film.
One way to compile GNU Fribidi as a static library (.lib) using Visual Studio
Introduction and caveat reader Yesterday I spent about half an hour seeing if I could get GNU Fribidi C library (version 0.19.2) to build as a static library (.lib) under Windows, using Visual Studio. Well, I cheated a bit and…
A few recollections from my freelance days
A slight departure from the usual posts on this blog 🙂 In the early 1990s, before large-scale offshoring came into play, I started working freelance, editing and typesetting technical books using Windows-based software (FrameMaker, before Adobe bought it) and certainly…
100 video clips of an interview with Donald Knuth
It’s amazing what you find: here’s nearly 100 video clips of an interview with Donald Knuth, from around 2 to 7 minutes each.
Full getopt Port for Unicode and Multibyte Microsoft Visual C, C++, or MFC Projects
If you have ever tried to port Linux apps to Windows you may find this useful: From the codeproject site: “This software was written after hours of searching for a robust Microsoft C and C++ implementation of getopt, which…