42 Specific Ways to Improve Your Use of C? and C?
by Scott Meyers
Effective Modern C++ presents concise, itemized rules for using C++11/14 features—auto, move semantics, lambdas, and concurrency—backed by dense code examples and limitation discussion. The useful part is concrete, opinionated prescriptions that point out subtle correctness and portability traps and suggest safer idioms. The limiting part is heavy assumption of prior C++ fluency: many items demand stopping to compile and think. Readers expecting a gentle introduction or a chapter-by-chapter tutorial will find the voice prescriptive and occasionally terse.
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Coming to grips with C? and C? is more than a matter of familiarizing yourself with the features they introduce (e.g., auto type declarations, move semantics, lambda expressions, and concurrency support). The challenge is learning to use those features effectivelyso that your software is correct, efficient, maintainable, and portable. That'...
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