The biggest sea change in software development since the OO revolution is knocking at the door, and its name is Concurrency.

Every decade or so there is a major revolution in the way software is developed. But, unlike the object and web revolutions, the concurrency revolution can be seen coming.

Interview with Dennis Ritchie, Bjarne Stroustrup, James Gosling.

This article appeared in C/C++ Users Journal, 20(1).

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Explains why auto_ptr neatly solves common C++ design and coding problems, and why using it can lead to more robust code.

Answers the question of how much memory the various standard containers use to store the same number of objects of the same type T.

Explains why a class that provides its own class-specific operator new(), or operator new[](), should also provide corresponding class-specific versions of plain new, in-place new, and nothrow new.

Delves deeper into the question of what operator new() failures mean, and how best to detect and handle them.

Shows what object construction, and construction failure, mean in C++; and that function try blocks are useful to translate an exception thrown from a base or member subobject constructor.