Archive of articles covering programming topics related to C and C++.

Recasts the well-known idioms of "Advanced C++ Programming Styles and Idioms" in pattern form and organizes these idioms into a true pattern language.

This article explores the strengths of C++, and how to exploit them in projects.

List of C++ source code optimizations that can give big returns, especially when used in tight loops. By Andrew S. Winter.

Based at Type Traits Proposal.

Takes a look at Blitz++, MTL (Matrix Template Library), ACE, Loki and Boost.

Explains run-time C++ implementation details such as class layout techniques and the virtual function call mechanism.

A Critique of C++ and Programming and Language Trends of the 1990s.

In-depth information on the four new casting operators available in C++. Written for those who know C++ but are using the old C-style casts.

How to build concrete data types, and, along the way, pick up on some subtleties of the C++ language itself. By Jody Hagins.

Explains why constant objects are not as useful as some people would like them to be.

Describes a set of techniques and tools (an environment) facilitating prototyping of, providing general mechanisms for, object-oriented architectures based on the idea of assertion checking and Design by Contract (DbC) in C++.

Discribe creating AVI/WMV/QuickTime movies from sequences of bitmaps with sourcecode examples.

Presents a solution that is easily extensible and maintainable; what's more, it is particularly well suited to creating objects from XML data.

Presents a set of guidelines for using cast operators.

Presents insights on choosing between symbolic constants as either enumeration constants or constant objects.

Discusses closures, late binding, and lambda abstractions.

Over 80 in-depth articles about object-oriented software development and C++ design and programming have been published in C/C++ Users Journal, C++ Report, Dr. Dobb's Journal, Java Report, Visual C++ Developer's Journal, and other magazines.

How-to article by Stephen Clamage.

Explains why the rules for initializing references make passing by reference-to-const an efficient and attractive alternative to passing by value.

Discusses what member function pointers are, shows how to declare and use them, and gives some examples of problems that they solve very well.

Reasonably complete list of Bjarne's publications.

Explains how the rules for initializing references differ from the rules for initializing pointers.

Shows all choices for defining symbolic constants.

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

Explains the use of the const qualifier on small code snippets. (by Carlo Wood)

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

A proposal to add Type Traits to the C++ Standard Library.

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