Foreword
Good things are happening in the C++ community. Although C++ remains the most widely used programming language in the world, it is becoming even more powerful and yet easier to use. Skeptical? Bear with me.
The current version of standard C++, which was finalized in 1998, offers robust support for traditional procedural programming as well as object-oriented and generic programming. Just as old (pre-1998) C++ was single-handedly responsible for putting object-oriented within the reach of the workaday software developer, C++98 has done the same for generic programming. The integration of the Standard Template Library (STL) into standard C++ in the mid-1990s represented as much a paradigm shift as did Bjarne Stroustrup's adding classes ...
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