Effective Concurrency: Avoid Exposing Concurrency – Hide It Inside...
This month’s Effective Concurrency column, Avoid Exposing Concurrency – Hide It Inside Synchronous Methods, is now live on DDJ’s website. From the article: You have a mass of existing code and want to...
View Articlewhois terry.crowley
Astute readers may have noticed that Terry Crowley’s name frequently crops up in the Acknowledgments section of my Effective Concurrency columns. Who is Terry? To answer, Mary-Jo Foley profiles him...
View ArticleMailbag: Shutting up compiler warnings
I recently received the following reader question (slightly edited): About the (Stroustrup) approach of implementing IsDerivedFrom at page 27 in your book More Exceptional C++: […] why the second...
View ArticleA Concurrency Poll
I’ve opened up a short concurrency poll to get a sense of what concurrency issues are top-of-mind for programmers, and I’d appreciate it if you could take a few minutes to participate. Some questions...
View ArticleDeprecating export considered for ISO C++0x
How interesting. I’m at the ISO C++ meeting in Santa Cruz, CA, USA this week. Ten minutes ago we had a committee straw poll about whether we should remove, deprecate, or leave as-is the export template...
View ArticleHoare on Testing
On the flight to the ISO C standards meeting this morning, I was reading this month’s issue of CACM, and found that Sir C.A.R. (Tony) Hoare wrote a nice piece called Retrospective: An Axiomatic Basis...
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