User profile: Cubbi

User info
User name:Cubbi
Name:Cubbi
Location:Long Island
Website:http://stackoverflow.com/users/273767/cubbi
Bio:First language: PDP-11 assembly (still the best!)

Favorite language: toss-up between Forth and APL. I like many.

Most used language: C++ (with boost and C++11)

Education: Ph.D. in chemistry

Career:
1996: scientific software (phys. chemistry)
2000: OS development (hard real-time/military)
2002: scientific research (biochemistry)
2005: real-time C++ (transportation/city infrastructure)
2012: large scale C++ (finance)

also taught programming in college and published a couple books
Statistical data
Birthdate:Feb 18, 1976
Gender:Male
Occupation:Engineer
Skills:C
C++
Assembly
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Number of posts:1924
Latest posts:

To have exceptions or not to have exceptions
With so many negative preconceptions (fat, slow, not elegant, tricky), it would be hard to have a he...

store 2-D vector
Why use push_back at all? If I understood your intent, you're looking for vector.insert [code]void ...

Coding an OS (stupid topic But give it a chance)
I hope you already bookmarked http://wiki.osdev.org/ - that's probably the most supportive resource ...

Templates Mangling my Mind
[quote]undefined reference to 'BST<void>::insert(int, void*)'[/quote] That's probably the simplest p...

how to implement a class that support both default ctor and operator=
That's because [code]w2 = create_info();[/code] creates and destroys a temporary in this case. You c...