Our arrays, aren’t. There, that’s known as a teaser. You see it in television all the time. “Find out which common household plant devours pets at night...but first.” And then you have to sit through and watch the stuff about Brad and Angelina shacking up / Shaq driving his new Hummer / Hummer’s [...]

Why now? My friend over at SciFiHiFi suggests that Microsoft likes trees, but Apple likes hash tables. Well, I think that Microsoft prefers integer arithmetic, while Apple (or at least Cocoa) likes floating point. Here’s a bunch of examples I found: Take color. Microsoft’s API (you know, THAT one) makes colors from integer components, [...]