Fixed point is essentially storing a number of units of a certain size instead of storing a significand and an exponent. However, if the units could be of any size, how big would the fixed-point units be in a typical fixed type of a programming language? C does not have fixed-point, so to use thi...
I'm designing a language that looks like this:
to kiss (a: a animal):
say "you kiss" a.
to kiss the frog:
say "the frog turns into a princess".
the frog is a animal;
kiss the frog.
This would print "the frog turns into a princess". While both variations of the function are valid, the m...
I've read that switching activity and switching frequency (frequency of flipping bits) are significant contributors to power consumption in the circuitry commonly used in flip-flops and hardware registers.
What generalizable, systematic techniques are there to optimize a fixed-instruction-length ...
Many object-oriented languages have classes to create objects from, and allow classes to inherit definitions from one another, but others use a "prototype-based" model and maybe don't have classes at all.
What is prototype-based programming, and what does it actually mean by "prototype-based"? Ho...
Close overly broad or bikeshed questions
Looking at questions from the first few days of the private beta, the site is inundated with questions that are either:
asking to write a Wikipedia article or a book chapter (e.g. 1 2 3 …);
trivial questions about cosmetic details;
big-list questions;
or ...
