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Interview With Herb Sutter
Anonymous Coward writes "Herb Sutter, a C++ luminary, recently joined Microsoft's Developer Platform and Evangelism Division, where he acts as a liaison between Microsoft and the C++ developer community. In this interview he speaks about his new job, the role of C++ in the .NET framework, and the current state of C++."
Herb is the creator and sole mind behind the "Guru of the Week" series, not just one of a panel.
He's also a moderator of comp.lang.c++.moderated, and recently has also joined the comp.std.c++ moderation panel, on which I also sit.
His "Exceptional C++" and "More Exceptional C++" books are more than just printed copies of the GotW material, which is freely available online.
Exceptional C++ in particular is a fine book, and all truly serious C++ programmers should read it.
I was at the ACCU Conference that Herb mentions in his speech, and at the end of the first day there was a special last-minute session scheduled with Herb and Stan, called "Revelation on the road to redmond". It was quite interesting, and when Herb introduced the man who had implemented partial specialisation in Visual C++, there was a tremendous round of applause! And this was not a conference full of Microsoft flunkies, far from it.
The upshot is, MS have an internal build of MSVC that will compile Loki. It should be available around the end of this year.
It's the library that comes with this book
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http://cseng.aw.com/book/0,3828,0201704315,00.h
It uses enough of the corners of the language that most compilers have problems compiling it.
The book itself is very very good: all experienced C++ developers ought to read it.