Acknowledgments for the Second Edition

Writing a book is hard. Maintaining a book is even harder. It took us more than five years—spread over the past decade—to come up with this second edition, and it couldn’t have been done without the support and patience of a lot of people.

First, we’d like to thank everyone in the C++ community and on the C++ standardization committee. In addition to all the work to add new language and library features, they spent many, many hours explaining and discussing their work with us, and they did so with patience and enthusiasm.

Part of this community also includes the programmers who gave feedback for errors and possible improvement for the first edition over the past 15 years. There are simply too many to list ...

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