Recent announcements made by some big players in the industry about C++ enablement -- like Google's Android NDK, the Apple-sponsored Clang compiler or the inclusion of C++ as a first-class citizen in ...

I have Visual Studio .NET and I was fooling around with Microsoft's Managed Extensions. They let you write garbage collected objects in C++, and it is presented as a fundamentally new paradigm.

In my initial column on C++ smart pointers, I mentioned how smart pointers overcame the perception that C++ memory management was error-prone. Today I want to talk about the classic ...