Acknowledgments

More than any project I’ve worked on, this book required the help of some very talented people. To begin with, this book is the vision of editor Peter Gordon as much as it is mine, and it wouldn’t have happened without his support and encouragement.

I was fortunate in getting assistance from some of the smartest people at Microsoft. Herb Sutter and Marian Luparu provided the software I needed as well as invaluable pointers. Stephan T. Lavavej provided insights on the STL (and yes, those are really his initials as well as his area of expertise!) that improved the book a great deal. John R. Bennett, a Microsoft emeritus, patent holder, and coauthor of Word Spellchecker, raised some questions on lambdas and regular expressions that ...

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