{"id":2314,"date":"2018-10-24T13:10:08","date_gmt":"2018-10-24T17:10:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ninecrows.com\/career\/?p=2314"},"modified":"2018-11-06T07:01:56","modified_gmt":"2018-11-06T12:01:56","slug":"new-version-of-the-c-templates-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ninecrows.com\/career\/2018\/10\/24\/new-version-of-the-c-templates-book\/","title":{"rendered":"New Version of the C++ Templates Book"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>There is a new edition of&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0321714121\/ref=ox_sc_saved_title_1?smid=ATVPDKIKX0DER&amp;psc=1\">C++ Templates: The Complete Guide (2nd Edition) <\/a>out. This has actually been in print for around a year, but I&#8217;ve been a bit focused on C#, Java and Javascript and not paying all that much attention to C++ developments for the last couple of years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-gallery alignright columns-3 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"408\" height=\"500\" data-attachment-id=\"2320\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/ninecrows.com\/career\/2018\/10\/24\/new-version-of-the-c-templates-book\/5108srrmql-_sx406_bo1204203200_\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ninecrows.com\/career\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/5108SrrMqL._SX406_BO1204203200_.jpg?fit=408%2C500&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"408,500\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" 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data-link=\"http:\/\/ninecrows.com\/career\/51mlncwqzl-_sx405_bo1204203200_\/\" class=\"wp-image-2318\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ninecrows.com\/career\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/51MlNcWqzL._SX405_BO1204203200_.jpg?w=407&amp;ssl=1 407w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ninecrows.com\/career\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/51MlNcWqzL._SX405_BO1204203200_.jpg?resize=244%2C300&amp;ssl=1 244w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 407px) 100vw, 407px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;ve created plenty of template classes and functions in C++ but have not done much more than a bit of reading on the powerful template metaprogramming capabilities provided by the C++ template facility. With C++ 2011\/2014\/2017 and its language and runtime library enhancements, these sorts of approaches have&nbsp; become more powerful and less complex.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I expect to buy a copy of this and read it through sometime soon as a complement to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/C-Programming-Language-4th\/dp\/0321563840\/ref=pd_bxgy_14_img_2?_encoding=UTF8&amp;pd_rd_i=0321563840&amp;pd_rd_r=196143f3-d78f-11e8-bd66-fd11a13cb987&amp;pd_rd_w=PcNS5&amp;pd_rd_wg=vq6nR&amp;pf_rd_i=desktop-dp-sims&amp;pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&amp;pf_rd_p=6725dbd6-9917-451d-beba-16af7874e407&amp;pf_rd_r=SR2XFB7X0V5KPE4Y1WRT&amp;pf_rd_s=desktop-dp-sims&amp;pf_rd_t=40701&amp;psc=1&amp;refRID=SR2XFB7X0V5KPE4Y1WRT\">The C++ Programming Language, 4th Edition<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Standard-Library-Tutorial-Reference-2nd\/dp\/0321623215\/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1540387019&amp;sr=1-2&amp;keywords=josuttis\">The C++ Standard Library: A Tutorial and Reference (2nd Edition)<\/a> and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Effective-Modern-Specific-Ways-Improve\/dp\/1491903996\/ref=pd_bxgy_14_img_3?_encoding=UTF8&amp;pd_rd_i=1491903996&amp;pd_rd_r=196143f3-d78f-11e8-bd66-fd11a13cb987&amp;pd_rd_w=PcNS5&amp;pd_rd_wg=vq6nR&amp;pf_rd_i=desktop-dp-sims&amp;pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&amp;pf_rd_p=6725dbd6-9917-451d-beba-16af7874e407&amp;pf_rd_r=SR2XFB7X0V5KPE4Y1WRT&amp;pf_rd_s=desktop-dp-sims&amp;pf_rd_t=40701&amp;psc=1&amp;refRID=SR2XFB7X0V5KPE4Y1WRT\">Effective Modern C++: 42 Specific Ways to Improve Your Use of C++11 and C++14 1st Edition<\/a>. I&#8217;m still considering dropping money on a copy of the standard itself (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.iso.org\/standard\/68564.html\">ISO\/IEC 14882:2017 Programming languages &#8212; C++<\/a>, main page <a href=\"https:\/\/isocpp.org\/std\/the-standard\">here<\/a>) as the comments on the final draft that is freely available seem to suggest it is more of a mess than is usual. Interesting&#8230;the <a href=\"https:\/\/webstore.ansi.org\/Standards\/INCITS\/INCITSISOIEC1488220172018\">ANSI copy <\/a>is at $116.00 which is significantly less expensive than I had thought.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is a new edition of&nbsp;C++ Templates: The Complete Guide (2nd Edition) out. This has actually been in print for around a year, but I&#8217;ve been a bit focused on C#, Java and Javascript and not paying all that much attention to C++ developments for the last couple of years. I&#8217;ve created plenty of template &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ninecrows.com\/career\/2018\/10\/24\/new-version-of-the-c-templates-book\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">New Version of the C++ Templates Book<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[43,9,5,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-c","category-daily-blog","category-thoughts","category-topics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7F2Qc-Bk","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ninecrows.com\/career\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2314"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ninecrows.com\/career\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ninecrows.com\/career\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ninecrows.com\/career\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ninecrows.com\/career\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2314"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/ninecrows.com\/career\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2314\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2341,"href":"https:\/\/ninecrows.com\/career\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2314\/revisions\/2341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ninecrows.com\/career\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ninecrows.com\/career\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ninecrows.com\/career\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}