Bjarne Stroustrup The history of the C++ programming language dates back to 1979, when Bjarne Stroustrup (prounouned By-ar-ne strov-strup) was working on Simula – the world’s first object-oriented programming language. While appreciating the object-oriented programming paradigm, Stroustrup found Simula too slow. When even BCPL (a predecessor of C, see A Brief History of C for […]

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The C standard does not provide standard sizes for these data types! Hence the sizes will always be implementation dependent, which means different compilers can give different sizes. That said, there are some rules however that all compilers are obliged to follow: 1. The size of char should be at least 1 byte (most implementations […]

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Yes! Most people seem to think that these two terms are inter-changeable: they are not! There is a very clear distinction between a variable definition and variable declaration. A variable definition defines the variable to the compiler. In the process, it specifies the data type, storage class and initialization. Most importantly, a variable definition results […]

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Dennis Ritchie (1941-2011) C has an enormous history before it could become popular, and has already become perhaps the most popular language on this planet! A very small percentage of developers and students seem to know how the language evolved, and hence this article. We start from the early 1960s, when the University of Cambridge […]

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Brainfuck is an esoteric programming language known for extreme minimalism, created by Urban Muller in 1993. An esoteric programming language is one that is not developed keeping practical applications in mind, and is developed to demonstrate or try out something or just for entertainment or show off. Brainfuck is so minimalistic that it comprises of […]

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It occurred to me yesterday that I better have a list of the names of all my friends who like the CyberPlus Facebook Page. I was surprised that Facebook did not have any provision of allowing me to download it. The next option for people like us is to do some hacking, given the fact […]

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Since C++ is based on C, and C is a direct language that does not attempt to hide anything from the programmer, C++ also has simple rules that the programmer can learn and employ. For instance, when objects are stored in memory, it is possible for the programmer to directly access the memory region and […]

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As programmers, we are experts at logical thinking, and strive to find logic in everything and anything we do! After all, computers work only on logic, and nothing else will do! There are times when we get stuck in our thinking process and face a problem that we struggle to solve logically. Sometimes we don’t […]

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Perl is a magical language! The addition or omission of a single character can result in a dramatic change in the working of the script! Try writing a C program and intentionally add an extra character or remove an existing character from the program. What do you get? Most certainly a syntax error, of course! […]

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Here’s a fun Java demo program that displays a smiley using Java’s painting API. Furthermore, we track the mouse movement using MouseMotionListener and make the smiley always “look at” the mouse cursor! To make it more “realistic”, the mouse cursor is changed to a fly! Have fun with this program! To run, use the following […]

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