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High-level languages insulate the programmer from the machine. That’s a wonderful thing—except when it obscures the answers to the fundamental questions of “What does the program do?” and “How much does it cost?”
The C++/C …
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August 15th, 2007 — Roundtable Meeting — Open Discussion
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This will be an informal discussion over dinner. Come ready to chat and get to know your fellow NWCPP members. If you plan on eating, please bring cash for food and drinks.
July 18th, 2007 — Roundtable Meeting — Open Discussion
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This will be an informal discussion over dinner. Come ready to chat and get to know your fellow NWCPP members. If you plan on eating, please bring cash for food and drinks.
June 20th, 2007 — Roundtable Meeting — Open Discussion
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This will be an informal discussion over dinner. Come ready to chat and get to know your fellow NWCPP members.
May 23rd, 2007 — The Zero Debugger — Cristian Vlasceanu
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In this presentation, I will:
- overview the debugging support provided at the OS level on Linux, how limitations in the design impacts debugger architecture
- share with the group my experience in implementing a C++ debugger on Linux
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April 25th, 2007 — Red Code, Green Code: Generalizing const — Scott Meyers
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C++ compilers allow non-const code to call const code, but going the other way requires a cast. In this talk, Scott describes an approach he’s been pursuing to generalize this notion to arbitrary criteria. For example, thread-safe …
March 21st, 2007 — Software Transactional Memory: A different approach to concurrency — Bartosz Milewski
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Traditional approach to multi-threaded programming, for which I have coined the nickname “deadlock-oriented programming”, suffers from a major flaw—it’s not composable. If you try to perform operations on multiple lockable objects, you run into the risk …
February 21st, 2007 — Text Processing with Boost — Eric Niebler
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The abysmal support in the C and C++ standard libraries for string handling has driven many programmers to other languages like Perl and Python. Boost aims to reverse that trend. Libraries such as Boost.Lexical_cast, Boost.String_algo, Boost …
January 17th, 2007 — Advanced D Programming Language Features — Walter Bright
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This talk assumes you’re bored with the usual macguffins—expressions, statements, and core strings vs library strings. We’ll skip right to the naughty bits—lambdas, mixins, tuples, scope guards, lazy arguments, and static if’s. What …
2006
January 18th, 2006 — Policy-Based Memory Allocation — Andrei Alexandrescu
February 15th, 2006 — The Phoenix Compiler and Tools Framework — Andy Ayers
March 15th, 2006 — Functional Programming in C++ using Boost.Lambda — Bartosz Milewski
April 19th, 2006 — C++ on Next-Gen Consoles: Effective Code for New Architectures — Pete Isensee
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November 15th, 2006 — What makes a Good Programmer? Things they never told you — Adair Dingle
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Time constraints and demands for breadth constrain academic instruction. Job experience fills in the gap between theory and practice. Here we discuss some circumvented hurdles (representation, resource management, failures) as well as key characteristics of students who succeed …
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