In This August Digital Issue:

Table of Contents

COVER STORY

• Implementing Producer-Consumer Hand-Offs in C
  By Andrew Binstock
It's important to know how to code the hand-off of data between concurrent threads correctly and efficiently.


• Creating Your Own Domain-Specific Language
  By Sebastian Zarnekow
Users of technical software often want to extend a package's capabilities by writing scripts. To do this, developers need to provide DSL capabilities. This article introduces the tools for easily writing and verifying a DSL grammar.


• From the Vault: Naive Bayesian Text Classification
  By John Graham-Cumming
John Graham-Cumming uses Perl to show that while spam filtering may be the best-known use of na�ve Bayesian text classification, it�s not the only application.


• Praise of Benevolent Dictators
  By Andrew Binstock
The programming languages that enjoy the most esteem by their users are all designed and managed by benevolent dictators, rather than committees.


• Letters
  By you
This month, Dr. Dobb's readers recommend another C library, discuss defining "immutability," surrender in the quest for small classes, and propose a new use for virual machines


• Links
  
Snapshots of the most interesting articles on drdobbs.com, including including "Using JDK 7's Fork/Join Framework" and "Sizing Android Visual Elements Correctly".

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