What makes Clang so special?

by CoderGears Team

It’s proven that Clang is a mature compiler for C and C++ as [are the] GCC and Microsoft compilers, but what makes it special is the fact that it’s not just a compiler. It’s also an infrastructure to build tools. Thanks to its library based architecture which makes the reuse and integration of functionality provided more flexible and easier to integrate into other projects...

EMC++ Exits Publishing Purgatory!

by Scott Meyers

I just received the following from O'Reilly: "Congratulations! Your book went to print on Friday, and we've now completed production. The Retail Availability Date for ebooks on oreilly.com and Amazon is tomorrow, 11/11. For print books, it's estimated at 12/2."

Event report: using std::cpp 2014 at Spain

J. Daniel Garcia

The success of this event is fully in line with several other international events as the recent CppCon in USA or Meeting C++ in Germany and can be seen as another proof of the high interest with which the industry has received the new versions of the C++ standard. It is also worth mentioning that as many other countries there is also a farly active C++ meetup group in Spain...

Case Study: LineRate's C++98 to C++11 Migration

by Lenny Maiorani

Have you heard about C++11 and the huge changes in the language?

Are you terrified to turn on the flag in your compiler?

Are your developers clamouring for modern language features?

The LineRate team['s ...] migration to [modern] C++ has been a breeze...

Where will Evolution lead C++17?

by Jens Weller

This is the third part in my series about the proposals for the current C++ committee meeting in Urbana. This time its all about the subgroup Evolution, which has the most papers, so this is only the first part. The previous parts were about concurrency, and Part 2 about core, networking, models and undefined behavior.

Ranges, Concepts, and the Future of the Standard Library

by Eric Niebler

Frequent readers of this blog know that over the past year, I’ve been working on a modern range library suitable for standardization, integrating good ideas from hither and thither — particularly from Sean Parent and Andrew Sutton — resulting in a library that’s available immediately, and a proposal to the standardization committee. This week I presented my work to the C++ Committee Meeting in Urbana-Champaign. The ensuing discussion has implications for the future of the Standard Library...

FUNGENOOP Programming

by Tony DaSilva

In his recent talks on C++, Bjarne Stroustrup always sets aside a couple of minutes to go off on a mini-rant against "paradigm shifts"...

From Mathematics to Generic Programming

By Alexander A. Stepanov, Daniel E. Rose

In this substantive yet accessible book, pioneering software designer Alexander Stepanov and his colleague Daniel Rose illuminate the principles of generic programming and the mathematical concept of abstraction on which it is based, helping you write code that is both simpler and more powerful.

If you’re a reasonably proficient programmer who can think logically, you have all the background you’ll need. Stepanov and Rose introduce the relevant abstract algebra and number theory with exceptional clarity. They carefully explain the problems mathematicians first needed to solve, and then show how these mathematical solutions translate to generic programming and the creation of more effective and elegant code. To demonstrate the crucial role these mathematical principles play in many modern applications, the authors show how to use these results and generalized algorithms to implement a real-world public-key cryptosystem.

As you read this book, you’ll master the thought processes necessary for effective programming and learn how to generalize narrowly conceived algorithms to widen their usefulness without losing efficiency. You’ll also gain deep insight into the value of mathematics to programming–insight that will prove invaluable no matter what programming languages and paradigms you use.

You will learn about

• How to generalize a four thousand-year-old algorithm, demonstrating indispensable lessons about clarity and efficiency
• Ancient paradoxes, beautiful theorems, and the productive tension between continuous and discrete
• A simple algorithm for finding greatest common divisor (GCD) and modern abstractions that build on it
• Powerful mathematical approaches to abstraction
• How abstract algebra provides the idea at the heart of generic programming
• Axioms, proofs, theories, and models: using mathematical techniques to organize knowledge about your algorithms and data structures
• Surprising subtleties of simple programming tasks and what you can learn from them
• How practical implementations can exploit theoretical knowledge

Perfect forwarding and universal references in C++

by Eli Bendersky

One of the new features in C++11 aimed at increased code efficiency is the emplace family of methods in containers. std::vector, for example, has an emplace_back method to parallel push_back, and emplace to parallel insert.

Here's a short demonstration of the benefits these new methods bring: ...

Looking for C++17 - Urbana Proposals for Core, Modules, Networking, Reflection and UB

by Jens Weller

The second part of my series about the proposals for Urbana, where the next C++ committee meeting will be held. The papers grand us a first view on a distant future - C++17...