Andrei AlexandrescuBesprekingen

I know this is an important book, usually mentioned as one of the books you must read for c , but I think is intended for library developers. I you are a plain application developer this is too much. It would be nice to understand the tecniques, even if you are never going to use them, but I still think is not worth the effort.

A clear and informative guide to one of the most interesting new programming languages of the past few decades.

Collection of the authors ideas about template programming.

The book left me with a considerably deeper understanding of template programming.

Unfortunately, the content is structured in such a way that it can not easily be remembered. In my opinion the book "Abrahams, Gurtovoy - C++ Template Metaprogramming" does a better job at that. I find it impossible to remember long-term what the responsibility of all those traits classes was.

This book is a tour-de-force of hacking, the fine art of making complicated systems do things far exceeding the original goals of their design. It is a shame that all this ingenuity and creativity is wasted on improving C , which is an unpleasant language in which to write. It is a shame that the tools he implements and the techniques he makes available to C programmers are already available in much more expressive and more easily understood form in several other languages. I'm very impressed with the work. I just wish his efforts had been applied more productively than in re-inventing the wheel.