I wrote a simple natural string order comparison function in C. I later found out I basically reimplemented (a part of) Martin Pool's strnatcmp, so I renamed mine that as well.

The idea is that in many cases the string "foo10bar" should sort after "foo9bar" instead of in between ...

In looking for a data structure for a memory management problem I tried to find a self-balancing tree that would use as little space as possible. The only one I found from Wikipedia that didn't require any additional information at nodes was the scapegoat tree.

Unfortunately, it's not ...

This tutorial attempts to show the basics of working with C in your BlitzMax programs. BlitzMax manual/help has a section titled "Interfacing with C and other languages", but I find it short and confusing. A PDF version (PDF, 142KB) of this tutorial is available, as are sources for samples ...