Preface
“The world is built on C++ (and its C subset).”
—Herb Sutter
The infrastructures of Google, Amazon, and Facebook are built to a large extent in C++. In addition, a considerable fraction of the underlying technology is implemented in C++. In telecommunications, almost all landline and cellular phone connections are driven by C++ software. Most importantly, all the major transmission nodes in Germany are handled with C++, which means that peace in the author’s family unconditionally relies on C++ software.
Even software written in other programming languages depends on C++ since the most popular compilers are realized in C++: Visual Studio, clang, and newer parts of Gnu and the Intel compiler. This is even more true for software running ...
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