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By Mantosh Kumar | Jan 22, 2015 01:46 AM | Tags: None
The title says it all.
Bjarne Stroustrup Awarded Dahl-Nygaard Prize for C++ Language
Bjarne Stroustrup has been awarded the 2015 Senior Dahl-Nygaard Prize by AITO, the Association Internationale pour les Technologies Objets[1] for the design, implementation and evolution of the C++ programming language. This prize is considered the most prestigious in object-oriented computer science.
By miltonm | Jan 22, 2015 12:09 AM | Tags: None
Kenny Kerr's article in MSDN Magazine describes how Modern C++ can be used with Windows API to develop efficient and elegant libraries:
Visual C++ 2015 Brings Modern C++ to the Windows API
by Kenny Kerr
From the article:
It’s somewhat ironic that C++ is finally modern enough for COM. Yes, I’m talking about the Component Object Model that has been the foundation for much of the Windows API for years, and continues as the foundation for the Windows Runtime. While COM is undeniably tied to C++ in terms of its original design, borrowing much from C++ in terms of binary and semantic conventions, it has never been entirely elegant. Parts of C++ that were not deemed portable enough, such as dynamic_cast, had to be eschewed in favor of portable solutions that made C++ implementations more challenging to develop. Many solutions have been provided over the years to make COM more palatable for C++ developers. The C++/CX language extension is perhaps the most ambitious thus far by the Visual C++ team. Ironically, these efforts to improve Standard C++ support have left C++/CX in the dust and really make a language extension redundant.
By Adrien Hamelin | Jan 21, 2015 01:07 AM | Tags: intermediate
A new article on the LLVM blog speaks about LLDB coming on Windows soon:
LLDB is Coming to Windows
by Zachary Turner
From the article:
We've spoken in the past about teaching Clang to fully support Windows and be compatible with MSVC. Until now, a big missing piece in this story has been debugging the clang-generated executables. Over the past 6 months, we've started working on making LLDB work well on Windows and support debugging both regular Windows programs and those produced by Clang...
By Felix Petriconi | Jan 20, 2015 08:11 AM | Tags: intermediate basics
Arne Mertz describes in his recent article insights about exception handling.
Don’t Try Too Hard! – Exception Handling
by Arne Mertz
From the article:
Among C++ developers there often appears to be a misconception about what it means to deal with code that can throw exceptions. The misconception is that the possibility of exceptions means one has to
tryandcatchoften and almost everywhere. I will try to explain why I think that is wrong and where I thinktry/catchis appropriate and where not.
By Marcin Hoppe | Jan 20, 2015 06:35 AM | Tags: web http github framework c++14
Web frameworks are a rare thing in C++ world so it's interesting to see a new one:
The Silicon Web Framework
by Matthieu Garrigues on GitHub
From the article:
Silicon is a high performance, middleware oriented C++14 http web framework. It brings to C++ the high expressive power of other web frameworks based on dynamic languages.
By Blog Staff | Jan 19, 2015 11:38 AM | Tags: None
Martin Moene reports that registration for ACCU 2015 is now open. ACCU always has strong C++ content, mixed with topics on other languages and software design and architecture.
From the conference page:
ACCU 2015
News
- Location: Marriott Hotel, 2 Lower Castle Street, Bristol
- Dates: 21st to 25th April 2015.
- Call for papers has closed.
- Schedule announced.
- Register now.
Keynote Speakers
- Chandler Carruth: C++ language platform lead at Google, late night LLVM hacker, all around trouble maker.
- Jim Coplien: Weaver of the paradoxes of lean and agile, of agile and architecture, and of objects and use cases
- Alison Lloyd: Pilot, embedded engineer, small business owner, and all-round dabbler.
- Axel Naumann: High Energy Physicist, professional tourist in the land of Computer Science at CERN
By psfrolov | Jan 19, 2015 10:10 AM | Tags: advanced
One of the lesser-known features of C++ templates.
Providing Explicit Specializations for Non-Template Members of Class Template
by Pavel Frolov
From the article:
C++ is full of surprises (albeit not always good ones
. It is a well known fact that you can provide explicit specializations for function templates and class templates. But it was a total surprise to me, that you can provide explicit specializations for non-template members of class template without specializing the class template itself!
By Meeting C++ | Jan 17, 2015 04:12 AM | Tags: performance meeting c++ efficiency c++11 basics
A new video from Meeting C++ 2014:
C++11 library components to make a programming scientist happy
by Peter Gottschling
From the talk description:
This talk presents a survey over components of the C++11
standard library which facilitate the life of a programming scientist.
It will provide a gentle introduction to the random number generator
and evolve this to a complete application: the stochastic simulation
of share price development.
By Adrien Hamelin | Jan 16, 2015 03:46 PM | Tags: intermediate
Some time ago, Emil Ernerfeldt wrote about type safe handles. Simple and interesting.
Type safe handles in C++
by Emil Ernerfeldt
From the article:
Let's say you have a system of resources and you identify them using integers as handles. These integers are meaningless to the user, but internally they may be indices into an array, or just a running count...
By Adrien Hamelin | Jan 16, 2015 03:32 PM | Tags: intermediate c++11
Here is a follow-up on a previous article about a simple signal system:
An update on “A simple signal system”
by Adrien Hamelin
From the article:
Almost a month ago from now (already), I wrote a post about “A simple signal system“. Check it out if you have not already, as in this post I will speak a little further about it...
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