One of the interesting features of the 8086 back in 1978 was the provision for “string” instructions. These took the form of prefixes that would repeat the next instruction a certain number of times.

Take advantage of best practices for using StringBuilder to reduce memory allocations and improve the performance of your string operations. Strings are immutable types in .NET. Whenever you modify a ...

Java’s String class encapsulates an array of bytes. A byte can be converted to a char, in which case, String becomes an array of characters used to compose words, sentences, or any other data you want ...

I listened recently to a Channel 9 recording of Anders Hejlsberg, Brian Beckman, and Erik Meijer that caught me by surprise. Brian praised VB's dynamic features, yet said he used C# because it had ...