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@tobiasgmayer Of course, I meant assertions... Doh!

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@tobiasgmayer Were exceptions ever *out* of fashion? Not that I ever saw...

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RT @daveabrahams: Move it with RValue References: http://cpp-next.com

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C++ Books - I'm frequently asked by developers for a list of good books on C++ they can use to improve their ski http://ow.ly/15Pd8Y

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RT @beb0s: get #boost 1.40 still it's hot !! http://bit.ly/t2ESK #cpp

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RT @daveabrahams: nominate Boost for SourceForge Community Choice Awards: http://tinyurl.com/boost-cca09 #cpp #cplusplus #boost

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@devbanana Strike that, @jamesiry had the better response: "Perhaps I subconsciously feel that it would be best if history did forget PHP."

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@devbanana There's a good one in the comments: "PERL developers flocked to PHP, dissatisfied w/ the complexity of PERL." http://tr.im/l2VR

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The duty of an exception handler is to get the err out of the lap of the programmer & into the surprised face of the user. http://tr.im/l2Uh

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Stroustrup bolts everything onto C to create C++. Result so complex code must travel to future to be compiled by Skynet AI http://tr.im/l2Ex

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If you couldn't make it to #boostcon, the slides for many of the presentations are online. http://doiop.com/boostcon #cplusplus

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If anyone is at #boostcon, let us know! We'd love to get reports from folks on the ground, and there hasn't been a lot of noise on the event

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Great 5 part series, well worth a read RT @minnowcoder: Just posted "Creating a Programming Language" http://tr.im/kKK0 #cpp #functional

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New blog post: Boost releases version 1.39: new Signals library adds thread safety http://tr.im/kHuI

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New blog post: Programmer’s Toolbox: TR1 function and bind http://tr.im/k2Wp