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• Dynamically-Valued Constants: An Underused Language Feature Discusses the benefits of using this construct. A sample of actual C++ code is measured to see how often dynamically-valued constants are used, and how often they could be used.
  
• Functional Style in C++ Discusses closures, late binding, and lambda abstractions.
  
• Learning Standard C++ as a New Language by Bjarne Stroustrup, creator of C++.
  
• OMT++ Papers Presentations on Object-Oriented Software Development
  
• Understanding C++ Exception Handling Offers some insight into the use and potential misuse of exceptions.
  
• The Anatomy of the Assignment Operator In depth discussion of writing solid assignment operators. Explains exception safety and memory management issues.
  
• About.com C/C++ weekly features Archive of articles covering programming topics related to C and C++.
  
• C++?? : A Critique of C++ A Critique of C++ and Programming and Language Trends of the 1990s
  
• Casting in C++ In-depth information on the four new casting operators available in C++. Written for those who know C++ but are using the old C-style casts.
  
• Contracts: From Analysis to C++ Implementation Describes a set of techniques and tools (an environment) facilitating prototyping of, providing general mechanisms for, object-oriented architectures based on the idea of assertion checking and Design by Contract (DbC) in C++.
  
• Creating Truly Maintainable Class Factories Presents a solution that is easily extensible and maintainable; what's more, it is particularly well suited to creating objects from XML data.
  
• C++ Under the Hood A look at the impact of C++ on program efficiency and the new optimization techniques that eliminate unnecessary overhead.
  
• What is Koenig Lookup? A definition of argument-dependent name lookup with examples for application with HP aC++.
  
• Using Template Functions to Customize Library Behavior Looks at function templates and how they can be used to provide hooks for customizing behavior.
  
• C++ in the Real World This article explores the strengths of C++, and how to exploit them in projects.