Explains what export is, and how it's intended to be used. Also looks at the problems export is widely assumed to address, and why it does not in fact address them the way most people think.

Takes a look at the current state of export and offers some advice on using export effectively.

To Adele Goldberg, Dan Ingalls, pioneers of object-oriented programming, and Smalltalk language and development environment. As researchers at Xerox's Palo Alto Research Center (PARC), each saw in their own way the promise of objects, and was in a uni...

For those who, in a spirit of innovation and cooperation, make significant contributions to advancement of software development; to Adele Goldberg and Dan Ingalls as pioneers in object-oriented programming in general, and the Smalltalk language in par...

Ranged types, common in Ada, allow the programmer to constrain a numerical type to a certain range. This article presents a library that brings these types to C++.

This article describes a simple method of adding exhaustive testing of the exception paths to the test suite.

This article presents the class variant_t, which encapsulates a mechanism to hold values of arbitrary types.

C++ creator Bjarne Stroustrup discusses the evolving C++0x standard, the education of programmers, and the future of programming.

Describes lock-free data sharing, otherwise known as "wait-free data sharing" as an alternative to the use of locks.

Critical sections are the One True Tool for guaranteeing mutual exclusion on shared variables. Like most tools, these must be applied consistently, and with the intended meanings.