Articles by Christopher Diggins (Articles: 16)

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MFC	Quick and Dirty Series: C++ FileSize() function 9 Dec 2004 Updated: 15 Dec 2004 Rating: 4.08/5 Votes: 25 Popularity: 5.31 Licence: Not specified Views: 179,154 Bookmarked: 30 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Finding the size of the file in C++ in a portable manner is not trivial!
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Agile	Agile, Scrum, and Customer Oriented Development 7 Apr 2013 Updated: 8 Apr 2013 Rating: 4.90/5 Votes: 14 Popularity: 5.62 Licence: CPOL Views: 50,396 Bookmarked: 43 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. A reflection on the fundamental principles of Agile, the Scrum methdology, and customer oriented software development.
	Learning to Embrace Changing Requirements 2 Feb 2014 Updated: 11 Feb 2014 Rating: 4.82/5 Votes: 13 Popularity: 5.37 Licence: CPOL Views: 22,323 Bookmarked: 11 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. A personal story about changing requirements and agile software development
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Performance	Efficient Map Operations for Arrays in C# 2 Sep 2012 Updated: 3 Sep 2012 Rating: 4.92/5 Votes: 28 Popularity: 7.11 Licence: CPOL Views: 68,411 Bookmarked: 44 Downloaded: 463 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. An informal survey of implementation techniques of the map higher-order function for arrays in C#.
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C#	LINQ for Immutable Arrays 28 Dec 2012 Updated: 28 Dec 2012 Rating: 4.50/5 Votes: 5 Popularity: 3.15 Licence: MIT Views: 30,671 Bookmarked: 14 Downloaded: 185 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. A library of extension methods similar to IEnumerable for working with immutable arrays.
	Cat - A Statically Typed Programming Language Interpreter in C# 4 Nov 2006 Updated: 4 Nov 2006 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 14 Popularity: 5.40 Licence: MIT Views: 70,633 Bookmarked: 45 Downloaded: 530 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. This article contains the public domain implementation of an interpreter for a statically typed stack-based programming language in C# called Cat. The accompanying article is a high-level description of how the various modules work, a brief description of the language, and links to related work.
	Introduction to Text Parsing in C# using Parakeet 19 Mar 2024 Updated: 19 Mar 2024 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 6 Popularity: 3.89 Licence: MIT Views: 7,260 Bookmarked: 10 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. An introduction to building recursive descent parsers in C# using the Parakeet parsing library
C++	Polymorphism without Planning (under the hood) 28 Nov 2004 Updated: 28 Nov 2004 Rating: 4.84/5 Votes: 12 Popularity: 5.22 Licence: Not specified Views: 64,462 Bookmarked: 32 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. This article explains the techniques used to allow the interface reference types to be polymorphic on any type which provides matching function signatures.
	Using Interfaces for Object Oriented Primitives 28 Nov 2004 Updated: 7 Dec 2004 Rating: 4.65/5 Votes: 11 Popularity: 4.65 Licence: Not specified Views: 57,372 Bookmarked: 27 Downloaded: 369 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. An introduction to the OOTL (Object Oriented Template Library). Describes how the OOTL uses a bleeding-edge technique of defining interface types in C++ to provide lightweight object-oriented primitives with run-time polymorphism through an IObject interface.
	Program Objects: Reusing and Redirecting C++ Programs 6 Jan 2005 Updated: 6 Jan 2005 Rating: 4.86/5 Votes: 12 Popularity: 4.86 Licence: Not specified Views: 47,930 Bookmarked: 29 Downloaded: 416 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. By writing programs as objects, it can be easy to reuse programs, and redirect them to one another.
	High Performance Dynamic Typing in C++ using a Replacement for boost::any 8 Aug 2005 Updated: 9 May 2011 Rating: 4.77/5 Votes: 29 Popularity: 6.83 Licence: CPOL Views: 229,649 Bookmarked: 77 Downloaded: 289 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. A high-performance alternative to boost::any.
	A Regular Expression Tokenizer using the YARD Parser 12 Dec 2004 Updated: 12 Dec 2004 Rating: 4.72/5 Votes: 17 Popularity: 5.55 Licence: Not specified Views: 50,083 Bookmarked: 29 Downloaded: 901 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. A tokenizer using the YARD parser which can recognize regular expressions.
	Parsing XML in C++ using the YARD Parser 21 Dec 2004 Updated: 21 Dec 2004 Rating: 4.79/5 Votes: 23 Popularity: 6.53 Licence: Not specified Views: 87,132 Bookmarked: 39 Downloaded: 1,192 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Provides a set of tools for building XML parsers in C++ using the YARD recursive descent parser.
	Union Lists: Single Value, Multiple Types 4 Jan 2005 Updated: 20 Jan 2005 Rating: 4.63/5 Votes: 16 Popularity: 5.44 Licence: Not specified Views: 67,087 Bookmarked: 28 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. A union list is a simple union style type which can hold one value of any of a fixed number of types.
	Fast Indexable Stacks 19 Nov 2005 Updated: 19 Nov 2005 Rating: 4.95/5 Votes: 16 Popularity: 5.51 Licence: Public Domain Views: 60,865 Bookmarked: 27 Downloaded: 296 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. I provide an implementation of fast-growing indexable stacks which outperforms std::vector and std::deque
Javascript	Implementing Programming Languages Using C# 4.0 22 Oct 2011 Updated: 12 Jul 2012 Rating: 4.92/5 Votes: 115 Popularity: 10.13 Licence: MIT Views: 232,573 Bookmarked: 249 Downloaded: 3,629 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. An introduction to creating programming language tools using C# 4.0.

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Christopher Diggins

Software Developer Ara 3D

Canada

I am the designer of the Plato programming language and I am the founder of Ara 3D. I can be reached via email at cdiggins@gmail.com

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