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I can't remember the last time I wrote any code outside of work. After a recent holiday I had managed to wean myself off the Playstation2 and was about to do some work on my little open-source project (including re-licensing to LGPL which I'd promised to do weeks ago) when someone lent me a great cricket game. Now I keep playing it until the sun comes up (which is when I notice the time and that I have to work in about 4 hours). I must get some more sleep, and then I'll find time to do fix the outstanding problems with PStreams. Yeah right.
async: i've found an alternative to overusing parentheses when writing (and thinking!) - which i do too - use hyphens - recently I find they map better to my train of thought - but that's probably just because it's about to be derailed by lack of sleep.
I would get an early night now, but have promised someone I'd help them with some DV editing. Why do people assume that because you're a programmer you'd love to install PCI cards for them and arse about with broken drivers and try to get Adobe Premiere working on a Celeron with only 64MB RAM that's already struggling to breaking point under Win2k? I might be able to write C++ in my sleep, but that doesn't mean I want to wrestle with bloody windoze instead of sleeping! :)

drunen, if you happen to see this, I realise it's a long time ago, but I've just found your August 2000 diary entry from a google search for "pure virtual destructor" and felt I should point you to the Guru Of The Week on pure virtual destructors (which was Google's top hit, and what I was looking for). It might help you know the Tao of C++ ;)

I've discovered that stopping drinking means I spend far more of my free time coding. I haven't decided yet whether this is a good thing or not.

Finally uploaded PStreams to SourceForge, CVS repository due to be imported soon.

PStreams has at least one user now, so I'll have to do more work on it and make sure it actually works.
Then I can relicense it and make millions. bwah hah hah! GPL my arse!   ;)

Registered my PStreams project at SourceForge.
Written more <algorithm> documentation for libstdc++, only merging, binary searching, set and heap operations to go, "almost there ... stay on target"

Continued documenting the functions in the standard C++ header <algorithm> for libstdc++, but got distracted by an internal helper function, __gcd() and spent the rest of the time learning about Euclidean Rings!