Separating interface from implementation has many practical benefits. Here’s a simple way to do just that, in ANSI-standard C code. How do you organize medium-sized or larger C programs? Few C ...

The Modula-2 programming language was recently extended with OO and generic programming facilities. Both the language and the extensions were standardized by the ISO/IEC. We provide a short ...

Last month the Spy opined on the software crisis–safety, security, and reliability having been abandoned for quick-and-dirty-get-it-out-the-door and let the customers do our debugging, software has ...

Over the last two months the Spy introduced the motivation for he and Telecom engineer Benjamin Kowarsch developing a new language, or more precisely, a fully modern dialect of an existing notation–to ...