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Discussion on: C++ Best Practices by Jason Turner

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Pierre Gradot

As I was reading the beginning of your article, I thought "this book is something like teach a man how to fish proverb." And then I read:

If you prefer, we might say that he teaches the reader to fish, instead of giving us the fish.

XD

I have read only the few first points of the book. Didn't learn much as I am an experienced C++ developer, but very interesting for less experienced developer. I am sure I will learn (or re-learn) more from the next points.

Obviously, this book is fast to read. But it will ask you a lot of work to explore what it explains!

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Sandor Dargo

Yes, many points will not bring much new to experienced developers (unless you check all the references, they must contain many parts we don't know). At the same time, the book is so fast to read, that i don't think that anyone would consider it a waste of time. Even if one only finds 3-4 exciting items.

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Pierre Gradot

unless you check all the references, they must contain many parts we don't know

There are always parts we don't know!

I didn't an internal meetup about lambda expressions in C++ last week. I thought I knew almost everything about them. Well.... I discovered many things preparing this talk!

I guess this book is like "look over there, you will find some stuffs" XD