Abstract Heresies

I put together a page that compares the various names of Dr. Scheme by how often people search for them in Google.

Steve suggested: For this to work like you want, Java style, you'd have to add a Class member to the Box class, to represent the type ...

Blogger really munged Mike's code, so here is the relevant part correctly formatted: public static int minimumIntegerInBox(Collection...

Mike Coffin took the bait. (Thanks, Mike!) Unfortunately, pasting code into the blog comments is a very poorly supported feature. Blogs a...

I'm working on a fairly simple problem and I think it illustrates something interesting. Here is the problem statement: A `box' is...

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Things seemed a bit quiet here until I looked at some older posts and discovered comments I hadn't seen before. It seems that gmail had...