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Programming language books explain that value types are created on the stack , and reference types are created on the heap , without explaining what these two things are. I haven't read a clear explanation of this. I understand what a stack is. But, ...

There are path dependent types and I think it is possible to express almost all the features of such languages as Epigram or Agda in Scala, but I'm wondering why Scala does not support this more explicitly like it does very nicely in other areas (say, DSLs) ? Anything I'm missing like "it is not n...

I am finding it hard to understand the process of Naive Bayes, and I was wondering if someone could explain it with a simple step by step process in English. I understand it takes comparisons by times occurred as a probability, but I have no idea how the training data is related to the actual datase...

Are lexers and parsers really that different in theory? 5 Answers 5 ...

What do the terms functional, declarative, and imperative programming mean? 14 Answers ...

I am doing a website for a Women's Abuse Resource Center. A lot of centers like this have what is referred to by the centers as a "Panic Button". An example of a basic one is found here at the top of every page in the green bar. ...

With newer versions of git it's possible to sign individual commits (in addition to tags) with a PGP key: 3 Answers ...

Recently I have had to serialize a double into text, and then get it back. The value seems to not be equivalent: 3 Answers ...

What is this idiom and when should it be used? Which problems does it solve? Does the idiom change when C++11 is used? 5 An...