- research!rsc
Thoughts and links about computer programming,
by Russ Cox
- Table of Contents (favorites in bold)
- A Tour of Acme September 2012
A video introduction to Acme, the Plan 9 text editor
- A Tour of Go June 2012
A video introduction to Go: interfaces, reflection, concurrency
- QArt Codes April 2012
How to make pictures with QR codes, part II
- Finite Field Arithmetic and Reed-Solomon Coding April 2012
How to make pictures with QR codes, part I
- Random Hash Functions April 2012
Go ahead, call rand in your hash function.
- go blog() February 2012
Sorry about the RSS trouble.
- Regular Expression Article #4 January 2012
Regular Expression Matching with a Trigram Index, or, How Google Code Search Worked
- Floating Point to Decimal Conversion is Easy July 2011
Straightforward printing of floating-point values.
- Minimal Boolean Formulas May 2011
Simplify equations with God
- Irregular expression matching with the .NET stack May 2011
Matching well-formed XML (!) with a not-quite-regular expression
- Knuth, Volume 4A January 2011
It's here!
- The MOS 6502 and the Best Layout Guy in the World January 2011
When chip design meant drawing every wire by hand
- Visualizing TCP December 2010
Seeing the packets
- Yacc is Not Dead December 2010
Even if it smells that way.
- Webscript September 2010
A language I'm still waiting for
- Computing Machines April 2010
A real Turing machine!
- Broken abstractions in Go March 2010
Mind-bending implementation techniques
- Zip Files All The Way Down March 2010
Did you think it was turtles?
- Regular Expression Article #3 March 2010
Regular Expression Matching in the Wild
- Formal Logic Club March 2010
This one you can talk about.
- UTF-8: Bits, Bytes, and Benefits March 2010
The reasons to switch to UTF-8
- Off to the Races February 2010
How to break memory safety using race conditions
- Names February 2010
My variable naming philosophy
- Go's Package Name Space February 2010
Why you can name any package math
- Generating Good Syntax Errors January 2010
How to make yacc print good syntax errors
- Gofmt December 2009
The end of the style wars
- Regular Expression Article #2 December 2009
Regular Expression Matching: The Virtual Machine Approach
- Data Structures Go Programs December 2009
Data-based programming
- The Generic Dilemma December 2009
Musings about generics in Go
- Go Data Structures: Interfaces December 2009
How interface values work in Go
- Go Data Structures November 2009
An introduction to basic Go data structures
- Is This Thing On? November 2009
Back to blogging...
- Electoral Programming June 2008
The dynamics of elections
- Lessons from the Debian/OpenSSL Fiasco May 2008
Looking at the context that made it possible
- Mel was Real April 2008
!
- Backups, heal thyself April 2008
Disk storage that can heal itself
- Bi-quinary and other bases April 2008
Like counting with one hand
- Computing History at Bell Labs April 2008
Doug McIlroy's rememberances
- Bigger Programs are Better, not Best April 2008
The Busy Beaver Problem
- Alphabetical Order April 2008
Is sorting hard because it is recursive?
- Using Uninitialized Memory for Fun and Profit March 2008
An unusual but very useful data structure
- Rotating Hashes March 2008
A hashing technique that faded into history
- Leaping Years and Drawing Lines February 2008
... and why they're the same problem
- Face the Nation February 2008
Historical bitmaps
- Permissive Access Links February 2008
The locks on nuclear weapons
- Elegance and Power February 2008
Elegant Haskell programs for computing power series
- Worms and Distributed Computations February 2008
A look at early distributed systems
- The Hideous Name February 2008
The pitfalls of mixing naming systems
- Bourne Shell Macros February 2008
How to make C look like ALGOL
- Traveling Passenger Problems February 2008
The computational complexity of airline travel
- Absolute File System Design February 2008
A file system that was truly robust against failures
- B Languages February 2008
Some influential languages of the past.
- Traffic Lights and Buridan's Ass February 2008
My favorite paper that was never published
- The Discovery of Debugging February 2008
Someone had to do it.
- Unix Viruses February 2008
Experience with some early computer viruses
- On Duff's Device and Coroutines January 2008
An abuse of C
- Play Tic-Tac-Toe with Knuth January 2008
The only winning move is not to play.
- Debugging the Universe January 2008
Physicists at work
- I Could Tell You, But ... January 2008
... well, let's leave it at that.
- Play Chess with God January 2008
The perfect chess machine
- Superoptimizer January 2008
When in doubt, use brute force.
- Division via Multiplication January 2008
A now-standard compiler optimization
- Scooping the Loop Snooper January 2008
The halting problem, in verse
- Crabs, the bitmap terror! January 2008
A destructive, pointless violation of the rules
- Bitblt January 2008
The canonical introduction
- Literate Programming with Lguest January 2008
The most readable VM you'll ever see.
- Killing Quicksort January 2008
How to force Quicksort to run in quadratic time
- Introduction January 2008
Hello, world