[Wylug-discuss] Speakers for meetings in 2004!

[Paul Grenyer]

Hi

> > Great! I was thinking some more about this last night. I could do a
> > couple of talks, one on getting going with g++ on Linux and then
move
> > on to cover how a lot of programmers (especially those with a C
> > background) mis-use C++.
>
> That would be good--I'm also from a C background, though I'm getting
> into the new way of thinking quite well.  What I've found hardest
> isn't the new language features, but breaking out of the mindset you
> used when designing software in C.

Yes, taking the (sometimes) OO approach is very different.

> You tend to want to do things the hard way!

Yes reinventing the wheel is a common problem.

> I'm working my way
> through the Josuttis "C++ Standard
> Library" book (currently on Algorithms!), and I'm finding it quite
> enjoyable--so much stuff that is tedious in C is so trivial with the
> STL).

Superb book!

Anyway, I think we may be straying of topic in terms of speakers. :-)

Regards
Paul

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Paul Grenyer
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