Here is an interview . A later issue of WER [issue #64] had an article by Mary Pride and reviews of books on how to get kids out of the system and onto the alternatives. One such alternative is home-schooling , which (despite what you may have read) is not just for wackos. It's not the most interesting alternative…
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If Rust is to take on work previously reserved to C++, we need to know how well it does what C++ does best. What’s fast, what’s slow? What’s harder to do, what’s easier? I wouldn’t know how to look up answers for those questions, but I can write programs.
Collectively, we have been thinking about sorting for longer than we have had computers. There is still an active literature 1 , 2 , 3 . We are taught that how the counts of comparisons and swaps vary with problem size is what matters: as problems get bigger, order dominates, and anything else is buried in the noise…