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Abstract: Two Views of C++
In 2002, Bertrand Meyer, inventor of Eiffel, asked me to give a talk on C++ at ETH in Zurich, where he is a member of the Software Engineering faculty. Meyer is a well-known C++-hater …
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August 17th, 2005 — Roundtable Meeting — Open Discussion
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Desert Fire7211 166th Avenue NortheastRedmond, Washington 98052read moreDescription
This will be an informal discussion over dinner. The topic is just a suggestion, and we may find that we prefer to socialize rather than discuss anything in particular. Come ready to chat and get to know your fellow …
July 20th, 2005 — Roundtable Meeting — Open Discussion
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Desert Fire7211 166th Avenue NortheastRedmond, Washington 98052read moreDescription
This will be an informal discussion over dinner. The topic is just a suggestion, and we may find that we prefer to socialize rather than discuss anything in particular. Come ready to chat and get to know your fellow …
June 15th, 2005 — Roundtable Meeting — Open Discussion
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Desert Fire7211 166th Avenue NortheastRedmond, Washington 98052read moreDescription
This will be an informal discussion over dinner. The topic is just a suggestion, and we may find that we prefer to socialize rather than discuss anything in particular. Come ready to chat and get to know your fellow …
May 18th, 2005 — Writing safer code with the Visual C++ 8.0 Libraries — Martyn Lovell
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Over the past 5 years, Microsoft has conducted extensive and detailed security reviews and upgrades of its very large code bases. We’ve learnt a lot about how to build safer code, and in Visual C++ 8.0, we …
April 20th, 2005 — xpressive regular expressions: Library design at the edge — Eric Niebler
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Another C++ regular expression library? Hasn’t it all been done? No!
xpressive pushes the boundaries of compile-time and run-time interaction. Regular expressions can be written either as a string to be parsed at runtime, or as an expression …
March 23rd, 2005 — Evolving C++ onto the CLI — Stan Lippman
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C++ reflects a static object model optimized for executable speed and size.
This has made it the language of choice for systems programming. The Common Language Infrastructure (CLI) represents a dynamic object model optimized for flexibility and security. C …
February 9th, 2005 — Dealing with Software Complexity — Bartosz Milewski
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One of the big problems in software development is that a lot of energy is spent on understanding existing code, whether it was written by other programmers or by the current developer long time ago. Bartosz will argue that …
January 12th, 2005 — Lock-Free Programming — Andrei Alexandrescu
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With the increase of processor clock speeds hitting a snag, we’re facing yet another silent revolution in processor architecture and programming style. Forget about writing lousy, inefficient code and then taking six months off to let Moore’s …
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December 2004: No Meeting
November 10th, 2004 — STL/CLI — Stan Lippman
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Building 43, Adams Conference RoomOne Microsoft WayRedmond, Washington 98052read moreAbstract
STL/CLI — STL containers and generic algorithms for Microsoft .NET Framework and ECMA Common Language Infrastructure
C++/CLI brings C++ idioms to managed code development. With templates and CLI Generics, STL/CLI brings the Standard …
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