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Any time someone tells you that one software technology will kill another one or dominate the whole market/use/audience, remember this : A sane (dynamic but stable) ecosystem is made of a variety of …

Delegation can be achieved in C++ by using functors (made even more simple to declare in C++11 with lambdas). Any type can define a call operator member function, so you could say that C++ does have D …

It's about having one unique rôle. Each class should be resumed by a role name. A role is in fact a (set of) verb(s) associated with a context. For example : File provide a file's access. FileMana …

Short answer : that depends, and using smart pointers systematically is just wrong. Think first. I'm using smart pointers for a lot of things but it's not right for everything, ie. no silver bullet. Y …

Can we make a class inside another class ? Yes, in C++ you can, it is called a nested class. However, this class is more like an extension of it's containing class, so don't forget that the sub c …

Short answer : You're mixing before-compile-time and compile-time concepts that have similarities in their purpose. Interfaces (abstract classes and all the object-orientation paradigm implementation) …

I'm curious - is generic programming (GP) used much in industry? It's really widely dependent on the context of the team and the project. For example, in video games, often the code is the "simp …

First, the "STL" is not an official term, it is the name of the library proposed for inclusing in the C++ Standard Library when there was no containers. It provides essentially container and algorithm …