Links

If you like this site, there's a good chance you'll enjoy visiting some of the urls listed below. I suspect that this will be the most volatile page on the GBB site. I hope it's useful to you.

Mathematics

Terence Tao's blog

Terence Tao is a Fields medalist and he blogs regularly on subjects he's been thinking about. As well as research mathematics, he's also written entries like "Does one have to be a genius to do maths?" and "Learn and relearn your field".

Programming

Alex Stepanov's papers, class notes, and source code

Alex Stepanov's name will probably be forever associated with C++ (because of the STL of course), but most of the material here is language neutral and of interest to any developer who is interested in continuing to improve.

Dan Saks' articles

For understanding C++ Dan Saks is the only person I know of who goes into detail about the fine points of topics like sequence points, rvalues and lvalues, the types of literal constants, and tag names. The C++ language becomes a little bit clearer to me when I read his explanations.

Other

Charles Harrington Elster's Page

Those who know me are aware that I'm very interested in etymology. There's lots of good information at this site. Incidentally, Charles Harrington Elster is the Verbal Advantage guy. I'd heard the ads on the radio for years, and assumed that the product was junk. Out of curiosity, I borrowed some tapes from the local library, and I quickly realized I was wrong.

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