Re: [openvrml-develop] Fw: Looking for Conceptual Info

[Braden M. <br...@en...>]

On Fri, 2008-08-01 at 11:14 +1200, John Pallister wrote:
> That's an excellent list of books (although I haven't read 
> Koenig & Moo either, I have all the others except Josuttis 
> [but I'd be lying if I said I'd read them all]).
> 
> I would also recommend Björn Karrlsson's "Beyond the C++ 
> Standard Library: An Introduction To Boost". Partly because 
> OpenVRML uses Boost (hooray!), and partly because Boost 
> answers the question "what could templates possibly be good 
> for that would justify all this additional complexity?" 
> (Apart from the STL, of course.)
> 
> And if you've read through all those books and your 
> enthusiasm for C++ continues unabated, check out "Generative 
> Programming" by Czarnecki and Eisenecker for some positively 
> occult techniques.

At the risk of overwhelming tees...

Another good book along these lines is Abrahams & Gurtovoy's "C++
Template Metaprogramming". It's both an introduction to template
metaprogramming concepts and a starter guide for boost::mpl. To some
extent, it more elegantly packages several of the techniques exposed in
"Modern C++ Design"; and as such it makes for a good follow-on to that
book.

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