November 2004 - Sutter's (Online) Mill

  • New book printings, and errata now online

    Addison-Wesley will be doing new printings of C++ Coding Standards and Exceptional C++ Style next week, and I've taken the opportunity to bring the errata lists up to date for those books. You can find the current errata lists at each of the books' pages...
  • Destructors vs. GC? Destructors + GC!

    On comp.lang.c++.moderated, Anand Hariharan recently asked: I recently attended a talk given by a .NET evangelist. Surprisingly, the speaker was quite sincere and explained why Garbage collection is no panacea (citing examples such as database connections...
  • Two new articles

    As I do most months, I've once again just written two new articles , which will be available in print around the third week of December: Trip Report: October 2004 , C/C++ Users Journal , 23(1), January 2005. This month, an update on the most recent C...
  • C++ Coding Standards Review

    Chuck Allison wrote a nice summary and viewpoint of the book. It is almost embarrassingly positive, but I'll share it anyway. <cough> In part, Chuck writes: You have never seen a book quite like this before. … This is the first “coding standards...