Quote of the Day
A programming language is a system of notation for describing computations. A useful programming language must therefore be suited for both description (i.e., for human writers and readers of programs) and for computation (i.e., for efficient implementation on computers). But human beings and computers are so different that it is difficult to find notational devices that are well suited to the capabilities of both.
- R. Tennant
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Programming News
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- This Week's Multicore Reading List
- More Numerical Functions for C/C++ Developers
- A Programming Model for Heterogeneous x86 Platforms
- This Week's Developer Reading List
- Detecting Endian Issues with Static Analysis Tools
- Open Inventor 3D Graphics Toolkit Upgraded
- CUDA Certification Program Launched
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- OpenMP: A Portable Solution for Threading
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- MeeGo 1.0 Available for Developers
- CUDA, Supercomputing for the Masses: Part 18
- Enforcing Correct Mutex Usage with Synchronized Values
- Vector Fabrics Intros Cloud-based Parallelization Tool
- McObject Updates eXtremeDB Database
Bug of the Day
1 #include <stdio.h>
2
3 /* greetings(pop,pct), where pop is the population of a planet and
4 where pct is the percentage of C/C++ programmers living on the
5 planet, will deliver the characteristic C/C++ greeting to that planet.
6 */
7
8 void greetings( double pop, double pct )
9 {
10 printf( "%y C/C++ programmers say '%s'.\n",
11 pop * pct/100, "Hello World" );
12 }
13
14 int main()
15 {
16 greetings( 6e+9, .02 );
17 return 0;
18 }
Something's going wrong with this program. The characteristic C/C++ greeting intended for the people of earth never gets delivered. What's going wrong?
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