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assembly language

There Ain't No Such Thing as the Fastest Code

I was tickled to see that James Hague chose The Zen of Assembly Language Programming as one of five memorable books about programming. I wholeheartedly agree. Even if you never plan to touch a lick of assembly code in your entire professional career, this book is a fantastic and thoroughly

xml

When Object-Oriented Rendering is Too Much Code

Let's say you wanted to generate and render this XML fragment: <status code="1" /> <data> <usergroup id="usr" /> </data> Here's a fully object-oriented way of building it: System.Text.StringBuilder sb = new System.Text.