I’ve been getting a fair number of requests for my slides from last week’s keynote at OGDC. They’re now available here.
Archive for May, 2007
OGDC Talk Slides Online
Posted in Concurrency on May 17, 2007 | 6 Comments »
Trip Report: April 2007 ISO C++ Standards Meeting
Posted in C++ on May 10, 2007 | 8 Comments »
The ISO C++ standards committee met on April 15-20, 2007 in Oxford, UK. Despite unseasonably sunny and warm weather and good European beer (the best I tried was Budweiser, and no, I’m not kidding because it’s not the American one), we made good progress toward our goal of having a complete draft of C++09 out for [...]
Thoughts on Scott’s “Red Code / Green Code” Talk
Posted in C++ on May 6, 2007 | 4 Comments »
Scott Meyers recently gave an interesting talk at NWCPP. Thanks to Kevin Frei’s recording skills and hardware, you can watch the video here.
Scott’s topic was "Red Code / Green Code: Generalizing const." Here’s the abstract:
C++ compilers allow non-const code to call const code, but going the other way requires a cast. In this talk, [...]
