User profile: Cubbi

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User name:Cubbi
Name:Cubbi
Location:Long Island, NY, USA
Website:http://stackoverflow.com/users/273767/cubbi
Bio:First language: PDP-11 assembly (still the best!)
Favorite language for fun: Forth or APL or Haskell
Favorite language for work: C++ (with boost)

Education: Ph.D. in chemistry
Career:
1996: scientific software (phys. chemistry)
2000: OS development (hard real-time/military)
2002: scientific research (biochemistry)
2005: real-time C++ (transportation/city infrastructure)
2012: large scale C++ (finance)

also taught programming in college and published a couple books
(non-English: http://amzn.to/18QDsFI )

Biggest peeve: those who attempt to teach C++ but instead propagate nonsense like
while(!stream.eof()) or while(stream.good())
void main()
Google C++ Style Guide
The FQA

Opinions are my own and do not represent the position of my employer.
Statistical data
Birthdate:Feb 18, 1976
Gender:Male
Occupation:Engineer
Skills:C
C++
Assembly
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Number of posts:3663
Latest posts:

Rule or Rules of evaluation in C++
Rules of precedence are http://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/language/operator_precedence Rules of evalu...

When to use exceptions, asserts, general error messages or even something else?
First, let's look at the situations where exceptions are supposed to be thrown: 1. Failure to establ...

Custom Class for std::set
They are all idiomatic, this is more of a question of class design. If a class has an ordering rela...

When to catch an exception?
+1 to MiiNiPaa. Also, don't use new, and if you do, don't put the result in a C-style pointer if yo...

Next Generation if statements?
There's over a hundred papers in this meeting's mailout, I feel that there will be insufficient inte...

C++

User: Cubbi