Elysian Shadows

Rapid Cube wrote:Does anyone know of a better explanation of how lambda expressions work than the one on Wikipedia?

They are just functions without a name. You often use them to pass to functions that take other functions. (higer order functions). I don't really know if this explanation is better though..

Hey does anyone know any good LISP (preferably video) tutorials? I have found some good ones on how to write LISP, but I recognize it is a very rich language with many interesting and unique concepts and I would like to find some tutorials that demonstrate these concepts in depth. Thanks For Readin...

I've been working on an engine I started working on awhile ago, but abandoned due to lack of interest, and I'm currently re-writing the majority of it due to poor design, and I was wondering if I was going about a component based system the right way. Basically currently I have several manager clas...

Pft. DON'T take it easy on yourself. Don't rely on school to teach you things (because it won't teach you a tenth of what you want to learn). Don't ever stop pushing or fighting to better yourself when it comes to your potential. There is nothing nobler than striving to be better. Be your own teach...

Im currently at an intersection when it comes to programming, and i have to pick a direction. Sadly this direction isnt as easy as picking one of two graphics libraries, i have multiple choices that lead to more intersections, and that just confuses me even more! I've been stuck for a while, and i'...

The angle between the two is simply the inverse cosine of the X component of our normalized vector. That's one additional trig function. Shouldn't you check if the y component is negative and add pi radians if it is? I guess this method could also be described by just using the unit circle and not ...

There is a need for trig when you plan on rotating something! I imagined this problem as a little tank, with a turret that rotates to point towards the mouse cursor. With ATAN, you would have that exact angle, rotate the turret to suit, and use SIN and COS to work out the velocity of the bullet. I ...

It seems that you have two points (Player and Mouse), and you want a vector from Player pointing towards Mouse and having some specific magnitude(the speed of the bullet). As i see it there is no need for trigonomitry. The following steps should do: 1. make a vector from Player to Bullet 2. normaliz...

http://www.examiner.com/freethinking-in ... ember-them

I thought i would add this.

I hope this is not too offtopic. :) I have been wondering about what the STL actually is. Is it just a specification of what interface the standard C++ containers should have, or is it an actual interface(You know, pure virtual functions). Is it the whole implementation or is it something else? And ...

I just stumbled upon this, and this thread came to mind: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5764 ... f-pure-ood
It seems like a good example of this "trying too hard to model the real world in OOP" concept some of you are talking about.

You are talking a lot about that it is important to write programs in the same way computers understand them (procedural). But isn't the whole point of a compiler to be able to write code on a higher abstraction layer? I can see the conceptual beauty in your approach (then again, LISP is also concep...

I found this thread/question on Stack overflow about strange language features.
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1995 ... ge-feature

I think some of them are quite funny :D

Btw, whats up with the new domain name "http://theprogrammingjunkie.com/" ???

N64vSNES wrote:LMAO Texture mapping a new thing?

To think that was 1992

Does 3D games without texture mapping even exists? It might just be the journalist trying to say as many techie words as possible(or i might just be way too young )

kendricktamis wrote:Not working as i expected..

What is not working as expected???