A definition of argument-dependent name lookup with examples for application with HP aC++.

Modern C++ is a more expressive, simpler language than C, and a language in its own right, so why do so many people insist on teaching it historically? Kevlin Henney appeals for a reform of the C++ education system.

Bjarne Stroustrup provides insights on what will likely be added or changed in the upcoming version of the C++ standard.

By B.M. Werther and D.M. Conway, Dept. Computer Science, Monash University, Melbourne.

Looks at how difficult it is to copy state from one object to another. (Richard Gillam)

In depth discussion of writing solid assignment operators. Explains exception safety and memory management issues.

Shows all choices for defining symbolic constants.

The new standard will support multithreading, with a new thread library. This article explains how this will improve porting code, and reduce the number of APIs and syntaxes used.

Reasonably complete list of Bjarne's publications.

An optimization manual for advanced C++ programmers on Windows, Linux and Mac platforms. Topics include: the choice of platform and operating system, choice of compiler and framework, finding performance bottlenecks, the efficiency of different C++ co...