IMM, DTU og KLID inviterer til foredrag

Bjarne Stroustrup: Writing good code in C++11

Onsdag d 2. maj 2012 kl 19:00 hos DTU, bygning 341, aud 21, Lyngby

Bjarnes oplæg:

We know how to write bad code: Litter our programs with casts, macros, 
pointers, naked new and deletes, and complicated control structures. 
Alternatively (or in addition), obscure every design decision in a mess 
of deeply nested abstractions using the latest object-oriented 
programming and generic programming tricks. For good measure, complicate 
our algorithms with interesting special cases. Such code is 
incomprehensible, unmaintainable, usually inefficient, and not uncommon.

But how do we write good code? What principles, techniques, and idioms 
can we exploit to make it easier to produce quality code? I will make an 
argument for type-rich interfaces, compact data structures, integrated 
resource management and error handling, and highly-structured 
algorithmic code. I will illustrate my ideas and motivate my guidelines 
with a few idiomatic code examples.

I will use C++11 freely. Examples include auto, general constant 
expressions, uniform initialization, type aliases, type safe threading, 
and user-defined literals. C++ features are only just starting to appear 
in production compilers, so some of my suggestions have the nature of 
conjecture. However, developing a "modern style" is essential if we 
don't want to maintain newly-written 1970s and 1980s style code in 2020.

This presentation reflects my thoughts on what "Modern C++" should mean 
in the 2010s: a language for programming based on light-weight 
abstraction with a direct and efficient mapping to hardware, suitable 
for infrastructure code.

Bjarne har lavet en beskrivelse der ligger på
http://www.klid.dk/arrangementer/C++11-style-bjarne.pdf

Bjarne Stroustrup er professor på Texas A&M University, USA, og
opfinderen af programmingsproget C++.

Foredraget bliver holdt til minde om Dennis Ritchie, som er opfinderen af 
programmeringssproget C, og sammen med Ken Thompson opfinder af
styresystemet UNIX.

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