Visual C++ Internals and Practices

Templates and Generics

Insomnia and being a workaholic is an interesting combination. It is amazing how much work can be accomplished in the eight hours before everyone else comes to work. J Anyways, I spent some time working on specifying generics in C++ yesterday so I figured

Behind the Design: Handles

In this writing, I plan to discuss the history and rationale of handles. This is perhaps the most noticeable addition to C++. I have heard many questions about handles. Why does C++ need handles? Why are they named handles? Why did you use the hat to

Table-pounding Evangelism of Visual C++

Today has been a long day. The language design team is getting ready to release a draft of the language specification the the ECMA technical group. The TG5 meetings for ECMA start in just under a month. It’s very exciting, and the countdown is leading

Security Improvements to the Whidbey Compiler

I’ve been away from an Internet connection over the last few days. After a conference in the Netherlands, I visited my sister in Germany. She’s stationed at Spangdahlem Air Base, which happened to be where the Air Force started using Xbox Live. The German

There is no language lower than C++

At the PDC, I was part of a panel that answered questions on the future of programming languages. Naturally, I represented C++. I also have a passion for functional programming languages, so I'm certainly a fan of Erik Meijer who was the moderator. (We

News of my death has been greatly exagerated

Good morning! I really meant to write earlier. I've been busy preparing for a trip to the Netherlands, where I am right now. I'll talk about that tomorrow. Anyways, I promised I'd talk about what I heard from C++ developers at PDC. After so many years