- Herb Sutter
Herb Sutter is one of the most prominent
C++ experts. He is also a book author and a columnist forDr. Dobb's Journal .His books include:
* "Exceptional C++" (Addison-Wesley , 2000, ISBN 0-201-61562-2)
* "More Exceptional C++" (Addison-Wesley , 2002, ISBN 0-201-70434-X)
* "Exceptional C++ Style" (Addison-Wesley , 2005, ISBN 0-201-76042-8)
* "C++ Coding Standards" (together withAndrei Alexandrescu ,Addison-Wesley , 2005, ISBN 0-321-11358-6)Sutter joined
Microsoft in 2002 as a platform evangelist forVisual C++ .NET , raising to lead software architect for C++/CLI.As of Feb. 2005, Herb Sutter is chair of the ISO C++ standards committee.
Guru of the Week
From 1997 to 2003, Sutter regularly created C++ programming problems and posted them on the
Usenet newsgroup comp.lang.c++.moderated, under the title "Guru of the Week". The problems generally addressed common misconceptions or poorly understood concepts in C++. Sutter later published expanded versions of many of the problems in his first two books, "Exceptional C++" and "More Exceptional C++".External links
* [http://www.gotw.ca/ Herb Sutter's homepage]
* [http://www.gotw.ca/gotw/ Guru of the Week]
* [http://herbsutter.wordpress.com/ Herb Sutter's blog]
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