You know what I don't like? Emperors clad in boxers.
December 2021 · Embracing Modern C++ Safely
Do you like version control systems — Git, Perforce, Mercurial, and such? I love them!
The foreword, signed May 2021, is in Pearson's free sample of Embracing Modern C++ Safely, from page xv.
December 2021 · Embracing Modern C++ Safely
Section 2.1 of Embracing Modern C++ Safely, John Lakos, Vittorio Romeo, Rostislav Khlebnikov, and Alisdair Meredith, Addison-Wesley, 2021.
May 2010 · Self-published
The dice are already rigged in your favor.
November 2009 · InformIT
You know what I don't like? Emperors clad in boxers.
June 2009 · Dr. Dobb's Journal
Of course, I'm not deluding myself that it's an easy task to convince you.
February 2006 · C/C++ Users Journal
The real world is not jerky. Columnists sometimes are.
December 2005 · C/C++ Users Journal · with Emery Berger
I sat down and wrote down an implementation that has portability as its only merit; other than that, it's not particularly performant, interesting, or original.
October 2005 · C/C++ Users Journal · with Bartosz Milewski
What looks like a duck, quacks like a duck, and chops your leg off in one bite? A polyglot alligator in disguise, of course.
August 2005 · C/C++ Users Journal
Printf is about as well-intended, fast, and prone to disaster as a playful Great Dane running in a porcelain boutique.
June 2005 · C/C++ Users Journal
Metaphors are great, but only when they resist beyond the watercooler conversation level.
April 2005 · C/C++ Users Journal
So program correctness is left to two of the least reliable teammates: attention and discipline.
December 2004 · C/C++ Users Journal · with Maged Michael
Do you have my $19,990 yet? No? Oh, no problem. Here is my last $10. I'll drop by some other time to see if you got my $20,000.
October 2004 · C/C++ Users Journal
It's like an electric fence that has the turn-off button up on top of it: to safely climb the fence you need to disable it first, but to disable it you need to climb it.
August 2004 · Dr. Dobb's Journal · with Scott Meyers
Multithreading is just one damn thing after, before, or simultaneous with another.
July and August 2004. The updated PDF is the one to read.
June 2004 · C/C++ Users Journal
The largest problem with std::vector is that it conflates two different concepts: data moving and data copying. Here. I said it.
April 2004 · C/C++ Users Journal · with David B. Held
May you be referenced for a long, long time.
February 2004 · C/C++ Users Journal · with David B. Held
If you were thinking you really can do what you want in C++, it's about time to disabuse yourself of that illusion.
December 2003 · C/C++ Users Journal · with David B. Held
There could also be "the wacky guarantee," which means that the system is in an undefined state in which you have no idea what might happen next, so you better call abort ASAP.
October 2003 · C/C++ Users Journal · with David B. Held
When it comes to smart pointers, there's only one person who knows the one true right way to implement them—and that person is you.
August 2003 · C/C++ Users Journal · with John Torjo
Homemade muesli, my personal recipe: 50% oats, 50% nuts, 50% raisins — try to beat that!
June 2003 · C/C++ Users Journal · with Petru Marginean
And crossing fingers is not really a good programming technique.
April 2003 · C/C++ Users Journal
They are a modus vivendi, a deep conviction that divides programmers in two cliques: those who understand, and those who don't understand, the power of... but I'm getting ahead of myself.
February 2003 · C/C++ Users Journal
Remember when I said: "the copy constructor is a function like any other?" Well, I lied.
December 2002 · C/C++ Users Journal
Given that it takes about a decade for a successful concept in Computer Science to make a career in the industry, I predict it's about time that the industry gives in and gets randomized.
October 2002 · C/C++ Users Journal
In correlation with the "Not Invented Here" syndrome, yours truly must be suffering from the "Invented Here" syndrome.
August 2002 · C/C++ Users Journal
You're on your own, and the compiler is like the Mob — it's always better to have it on your side.
June 2002 · C/C++ Users Journal
Erring on the large side of alignment is not that bad in most cases. (Erring on the small side is disastrous.)
April 2002 · C/C++ Users Journal
Believe me: in spite of the appearances, if you were looking for an article on programming, you're in the right place.
March 2002 · InformIT
Unfortunately, "simple" might sometimes morph into "simplistic."
February 2002 · C/C++ Users Journal
If you can't tell a typelist from a Christmas wish list, you're in the right place.
December 2001 · C/C++ Users Journal
Like those Freudian reports that link the mid-life angst to some little event in childhood, memory allocation in C++ has quite an interesting story that harkens back to C.
October 2001 · C/C++ Users Journal
Were it an original idea, I would have hastened to call filling by copy "The Romanian Peasant" algorithm.
August 2001 · C/C++ Users Journal
As it often happens with C++, the scenery you enjoy at the top of the hill is well worth the effort — if only you could ignore that thing you just stepped in.
June 2001 · C/C++ Users Journal
Copy-on-write is fondly called COW by its fans, and "the mad cow" by its opponents.
April 2001 · C/C++ Users Journal
Java and C#, two newer and supposedly superior languages, are utterly impotent at expressing min and max because, you know, min and max are not objects.
February 2001 · C/C++ Users Journal
I prefer deadlocks to race conditions because they are so much easier to debug.
December 2000 · C/C++ Users Journal · with Petru Marginean
If you designed C++, would you have called the destructor for an object whose very construction failed?
The ScopeGuard technique. Later work turned the same idea into D's scope statement.
October 2000 · C/C++ Users Journal
If Clint Eastwood asked me "Do you feel lucky?", I'd certainly say I do.
June 2000 · XP2000, Cagliari
A design is a deliberate choice of a set of tradeoffs, out of a combinatorial space.
Also chapter 30, The Design Is in the Code: Enhanced Reuse Techniques in C++, in Extreme Programming Examined, Giancarlo Succi and Michele Marchesi, eds., Addison-Wesley, 2001.
June 2000 · C++ Report
Static lock, bad juju!
April 2000 · C++ Report
This looks like an if statement, only it's driven by types.
March 2000 · C++ Report · with John Vlissides
The more code you don't write, the easier your life gets, and the fewer bugs you'll get blamed for.
May 2000 · C++ Report · with John Vlissides
If you're prepared to believe that SINGLETON is worth implementing in a reusable fashion (and shame on you if you're not), then you've got a problem.
April 1999 · C/C++ Users Journal
Sometimes you can even lie about what's inside a container, and to good advantage.
March 1999 · C/C++ Users Journal
We take for granted that debugging templates is a nightmare, but maybe that doesn't have to be true forever.
October 1998 · C/C++ Users Journal
Iterators can hide a multitude of sins.
September 1998 · C/C++ Users Journal
How can you pass a varying number of arguments to a function and maintain type safety? One argument at a time.