Professional C++

Acknowledgments

We owe a debt of gratitude to the many people who have made this book possible. We'd like to thank David Fugate of Waterside Productions for all of his advice and guidance, and Robert Elliot at Wiley for giving two unknown authors the opportunity to tell the C++ story in a new way. This book would not have turned out nearly as well as it did without the assistance of our development editor, Adaobi Obi Tulton. Thanks also to Kathryn Malm Bourgoine for her editorial assistance. The photo on the cover, which artfully minimized our nerdiness, was taken by Adam Tow.

We also want to thank all of the coworkers and teachers who have encouraged us to code the right way over the years. In particular, thanks to Mike Hanson, Maggie Johnson, Adam Nash, Nick Parlante, Bob Plummer, Eric Roberts, Mehran Sahami, Bill Walker, Dan Walkowski, Patrick Young, and Julie Zelenski. Our eternal thanks to Jerry Cain, who not only taught us C++ originally, but also served as technical editor, religiously analyzing the code in this book as though it were one of our final exams.

Thanks also to the following people, who reviewed one or more chapters: Rob Baesman, Aaron Bradley, Elaine Cheung, Marni Kleper, Toli Kuznets, Akshay Rangnekar, Eltefaat Shokri, Aletha Solter, Ken Solter, and Sonja Solter. Any remaining errors are, of course, our own. We'd like to thank our families for their patience and support.

Finally, we'd like to thank you, our readers, for trying out our approach to professional C++ ...