Essays on Software Technology
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Essays on Software Technology
（Programming on purpose, 3）
Prentice-Hall, 1993
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Description
This collection of essays drawn from Plauger's popular "Programming on Purpose" column in the magazine Computer Language, focuses on the technology of writing computer software. Plauger's style is clear without being simplistic, reducing complex themes to bite-size chunks. KEY TOPICS: Covers a number of important technical themes such as computer arithmetic, approximating math functions, human perception and artificial intelligence, encrypting data and clarifying documentation.
Table of Contents
1. You Must Be Joking. 2. Computer Arithmetic. 3. Floating-Point Arithmetic. 4. The Central Folly. 5. Safe Math. 6. Do-It-Yourself Math Functions. 7. Locking the Barn Door. 8. Half a Secret. 9. It's (Almost) Alive. 10. The (Almost) Right Stuff. 11. Instant Lies. 12. What Meets the Eye. 13. Technicolor and Cinemascope. 14. What Meets the Ear. 15. Warm Fuzzies. 16. Font Follies. 17. Text Editors. 18. Approximating Functions. 19. Economizing Polynomials. 20. Technical Writing. 21. All I Want to Do Is. 22. Programming for the Billions. 23. All Sorts of Sorts. 24. Transforming Strings. 25. Books for Our Times. 26. Through the Grapevine. Appendix A: List of Columns. Appendix B: Bibliography. Index.
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