tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7101933101966798446.post2557229392666366316..comments2024-03-28T07:42:34.228-07:00Comments on The View from Aristeia: More Effective C++ at 30 (Printings)Scott Meyershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05280964633768289328noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7101933101966798446.post-51691618741655680502012-12-16T20:14:50.207-08:002012-12-16T20:14:50.207-08:00@Jon Kalb: Thanks for your very kind words, Jon :...@Jon Kalb: Thanks for your very kind words, Jon :-)<br />Scott Meyershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05280964633768289328noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7101933101966798446.post-25493703647974783852012-12-16T13:29:04.796-08:002012-12-16T13:29:04.796-08:00Scott, I want to acknowledge the intellectual debt...Scott, I want to acknowledge the intellectual debt that I own you for both "EC++" and "MEC++."<br /><br />Although they are modular, I read them both cover to cover.<br /><br />I learned from them how much (non-obvious) complexity and power there was to C++, but they gave me some confidence that I could master it.<br /><br />I still remember how impressed I was by the books. I also remember thinking how indispensable they were. How could someone create a language of such complexity and think that anyone could possibly understand it without books like these? How did anyone figure out how to use C++ (properly) without such books? I remember wondering how difficult it must have been to learn all of these lessons the hard way in order to write them.<br /><br />I used both books as references after that initial reading and I also went back to re-read them cover to cover a couple of times.<br /><br />I think it was about my third time through that I remember being a little disappointed. The content didn't seem as non-obvious. It seemed like the advise you were giving was pretty basic and not at all as useful as I remembered it. Then it dawned on my why it felt that way. I had so internalized your advise that a lot of it had become second nature to me. When I was thinking "Well, of course, everyone knows this." I was missing the fact that the reason everyone know it is because this is where they read it.<br /><br />I look forward to leaning even more from you.<br />Jon Kalbhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15345662620274985978noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7101933101966798446.post-61518929629324837922012-12-13T13:51:58.953-08:002012-12-13T13:51:58.953-08:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7101933101966798446.post-12033089458399748572012-12-11T12:03:59.092-08:002012-12-11T12:03:59.092-08:00@Anonymous: The plan is for Effective C++11 to be ...@Anonymous: The plan is for <i>Effective C++11</i> to be a book with completely new content. It will consist of guidelines regarding the use of features in C++11 that are not present in C++98/03. <br /><br />I'm busy working on other projects right now, but I hope to have them taken care of by the end of the year, at which point I expect <i>Effective C++11</i> ("EC++11") to become my top priority. When that happens, I'll post to the blog, because I have some questions about how to approach the project that are best answered by prospective readers.Scott Meyershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05280964633768289328noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7101933101966798446.post-87454223527730251562012-12-11T10:39:57.071-08:002012-12-11T10:39:57.071-08:00I gather from the consistent use of the title &quo...I gather from the consistent use of the title "Effective C++11" that this will be a completely new book, not simply a new edition of the first "Effective C++"?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7101933101966798446.post-56016291681622838352012-12-09T12:13:54.410-08:002012-12-09T12:13:54.410-08:00@Tom: I hope to write Effective C++11 next year, b...@Tom: I hope to write <i>Effective C++11</i> next year, but we'll see. If I do it, it will be just in time for the book to be made obsolete by the publication of C++14 :-)Scott Meyershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05280964633768289328noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7101933101966798446.post-7034047024346673752012-12-09T11:26:03.499-08:002012-12-09T11:26:03.499-08:00Kudos Scott. If course we're all waiting for &...Kudos Scott. If course we're all waiting for 'Effective C++ 11' at this point :-) Hope we'll see it before the next Standard iteration is published in a little over a year.Tomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10532325487524827986noreply@blogger.com