Like a warm spring breeze
writing is to summer’s dawn
as language to dusk

When autumn turns hence
to where winter must come forth
spring awaits summer

is this coming spring
or is’t autumn in disguise?
spring doth promise much!

functional combines
programming summers into
sheerly fun coding

For the past five years now, I’ve worked on vision inspection systems for the pharmaceutical industry. In those years, I have seen many applications in which cameras were used to read data on bottles, cartons, even tablets. Barcodes can be printed almost anywhere and can be of almost any size. One application I’ve worked on [...]

a glass of water
may sometimes have a storm, but
blizzards there are rare

Sun to early spring
is like snow is to autumn:
unexpected joy

In response to Scott Meyers’ question on non-inline non-template functions and the one-definition rule, Francis Glassborow replied with a very interesting example of two lexically identical functions that weren’t actually identical.

recursive locking:
winter’s way of saying “yes”,
to summer’s loud “no”

Sadness of winter
decided this summer, when
no concept survived