More C++ Idioms

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C++ has indeed become too "expert friendly" --- Bjarne Stroustrup.

It is true because experts are intimately familiar with the idioms in the language. The more idioms a programmer absorbs, the friendlier the language becomes to him/her. The objective of this open content book is to help elevate the knowledge of programmers who have moderate level of familiarity with C++ to a level where C++ feels much friendlier to them. It is designed to be an exhaustive catalog of reusable idioms that expert C++ programmers often use while programming/designing with C++. This is an effort to capture their techniques and vocabulary into a single work. This book describes the idioms in a regular format: Name-Intent-Motivation-Solution, which is succinct and helps learning faster.

The world is invited to catalog reusable pieces of C++ knowledge (similar to the book on patterns by GoF). The goal here is to first build an exhaustive catalog of modern C++ idioms and later evolve it into an idiom language, just like a pattern language. Finally, the contents of this book can be redistributed under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.

Aimed toward: Anyone with a moderate level of knowledge in C++ and supported language paradigms