noah’s mark

Before you big C# fellaters out there get all pissed off, let me start by saying how cool some of the new C# features are. For those of you who aren’t tuned in to the Microsoft Kool-Aid bandwagon, C# is becoming, well, more Lispy (by which I mean is getting language features that will let it sit at the Adult Table next Thanksgiving). Features that C#, along with some other languages (Java, I’m looking at you, you red-headed stepchild of programming languages), have been needing.

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As I looked back over past posts, I realized that I’ve never (at least to my memory) written an article explaining RAII.  I’ve done it in person quite a few times, to the various classes that I have TAed or graded, but I haven’t written it down.  So, here’s an attempt at it.

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I was randomly flipping through Code Complete today (on a slight whim of masochism), and read a whopping 2 pages before I came upon YASI (Yet Another Stupid Idea), for which this book is famous for (famous among people who prefer to think when they code, rather than crapping code out their, well, you know.)

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I stayed home sick today (seems I caught a bit of a stomach bug), so I decided to pass some of the time watching silly Google/YouTube videos. One of the videos I came upon (while looking for videos of any of the bridges in Seattle that have sunk over the years), was this video. The title of the video is “Creationist Kent Hovind Reveals The Truth About Dinosaurs And Evolution!”

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