May 1999
Volume 17 Number 5
CROSS-PLATFORM DEVELOPMENT
Portable Control of Multiple Daemon Processes
Joseph Kathan
The Unix and Windows process models are just different enough to present problems when writing portable code.
A Wrapper Class for Dynamically Linked Plug-Ins
Eric Roe
Creating plug-ins for multiple platforms can be tricky. Here's some techniques that make writing plug-ins almost as easy as using them.
FEATURES
Learning Standard C++ as a New Language
Bjarne Stroustrup
Perhaps it's time to stop thinking of C++ as the language to learn after C. Just ask the guy who invented C++.
BOOK REVIEW
Review of Scott Meyers' Effective C++ Compact Disk
reviewed by Chuck Allison
Meyers does it again, this time with a machine-readable version of his invaluable guides to programming in C++.
C/C++ CONTRIBUTING EDITORS
Standard C/C++: Multibyte Files
P. J. Plauger
The proper way to represent wide characters in a file is as a multibyte stream. But you sometimes need help to support the encoding you really want to use.
C++ Theory and Practice: Thinking Deeper
Dan Saks
Preserving constness where you want it is a little easier with templates, but it's still rife with complexities.
import java.*: Control Flow — The Bad, The Good, The Exceptional
Chuck Allison
Java provides more ways to alter flow of control than C, but it's still a very structured language.
The Journeyman's Shop: Initialization and Cleanup, Part 3
Pete Becker
It's a simple rule: initialize objects before you use them and clean them up when you're done with them. But sometimes that takes pretty careful planning.