Andrei Alexandrescu

This book is a tour-de-force of hacking, the fine art of making complicated systems do things far exceeding the original goals of their design. It is a shame that all this ingenuity and creativity is wasted on improving C , which is an unpleasant language in which to write. It is a shame that the tools he implements and the techniques he makes available to C programmers are already available in much more expressive and more easily understood form in several other languages. I'm very show more impressed with the work. I just wish his efforts had been applied more productively than in re-inventing the wheel. show less

Collection of the authors ideas about template programming.

The book left me with a considerably deeper understanding of template programming.

Unfortunately, the content is structured in such a way that it can not easily be remembered. In my opinion the book "Abrahams, Gurtovoy - C++ Template Metaprogramming" does a better job at that. I find it impossible to remember long-term what the responsibility of all those traits classes was.

I know this is an important book, usually mentioned as one of the books you must read for c , but I think is intended for library developers. I you are a plain application developer this is too much. It would be nice to understand the tecniques, even if you are never going to use them, but I still think is not worth the effort.

A clear and informative guide to one of the most interesting new programming languages of the past few decades.