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... Although a large variety of fonts are available with the P OST S CRIPT language, there are situations when users may wish to modify the existing fonts or create new fonts. This section presents several examples of ... See full document

... Understanding the use of the setprecision(digits) manipulator is complicated by the fact that the interpretation of the argument depends on other mode settings for the stream. In the absence of any specifications to the ... See full document

... Chess is a much more complex game. But even in chess, we already have in our possession a non-trivial chunk of the opti- mal strategy (of course, solutions to chess problems like in Fig- ure 7.6 are also tiny fragments ... See full document

... In 1956, Zakon moved to Canada. As a research fellow at the University of Toronto, he worked with Abraham Robinson. In 1957, he joined the mathemat- ics faculty at the University of Windsor, where the first degrees in ... See full document

... Object-oriented programming is a programming model based on “objects” and their interactions. The OCaml object system, like many other object-oriented languages, includes various concepts like objects, ... See full document

... In a few cases, it might be impossible for an init... method to do what it’s asked to do. For example, an initFromFile: method might get the data it needs from a file passed as an argument. If the file name it’s passed ... See full document

... the technical editors, Opera Web Evangelist Bruce Lawson, Shelley Powers, and Edd Dumbill, as well as copyeditor Audrey Doyle, for their time, expertise, and ... See full document

... tal language features, extensive libraries of commonly-used routines, and useful program development ...support language extensions such as support for concurrent programming (using message- passing ... See full document

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... The code of the first group of menu items used to select the font is based on a simple trick: the name of the font to select corresponds to the Caption of the menu item, without the init[r] ... See full document

... Given the large number of elusive but nevertheless attractive generalizations that link semantical notions such as volition or telicity to syntactic notions such as case or subjecthood, one may wonder why most linguists ... See full document

... For example, if Widget were declared a private base class of OptionList, and a public base class of Window, then it would still be a public base class of Menu. ¨.[r] ... See full document

... Jeffrey Oldham received a bachelor of arts degree in computer science from Rice University in 1991. After working at the Center for Research on Parallel Computation, he obtained a doctor of philoso- phy degree ... See full document

... Translating clues of a logic puzzle from unconstrained English into the input language of an automated reasoning system is a large step towards creating an AI system that solves puzzles. But that challenging task ... See full document

... Most games rely almost exclusively on surface blits for their drawing (as opposed to drawing with individual pixels). For example, consider the game Civilization: Call To Power (which was ported to Linux using SDL). ... See full document

... So, why all this trouble? Why not simply use a word processor? The answer lies in the motivation behind TEX. Donald Knuth says that his aim in creating TEX is to beautifully typeset technical documents especially ... See full document

... Because general-purpose databases must support arbitrary applications such as banking and inventory control, they allow arbitrary collections of data to be stored. Directories may be limited in the type of data they ... See full document

... digital books are never out of date for long, and you can take advantage of new material as it is made available instead of having to wait for a whole new print ... See full document

... Here, the order is important. If we had put the last line first, it would have matched every argument, and f would return -1, regardless of its argument (most compilers will warn you about this, though, saying something ... See full document

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