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Back to Basics: Generic Programming in C++ - David Olsen - CppCon 2024
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Generic programming, better known in C++ as templates, can feel daunting and overwhelming to those unfamiliar with the paradigm. This Back to Basics talk will explain the foundations of C++ templates, covering the language rules that must be understood in order to work with template code effectively. I will provide some guidelines for how to use templates and how to write templates.
While you won't come away from this being an expert in template metaprogramming--that's an impossible task for any hour-long presentation--you should have a strong enough foundation that you can correctly maintain template code while you develop your expertise in generic programming over time.
This talk is designed for those who are learning C++ and want an introduction to templates and generic programming. It will also be useful for experienced C++ developers who haven't mastered templates yet and want to brush up on their understanding of how templates work.
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Slides: https://github.com/CppCon/CppCon2024/blob/main/Presentations/Back_to_Ba…
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David Olsen
David Olsen has three decades of software development experience in a variety of programming languages and development environments. For the last seven years he has been the lead engineer for the NVIDIA HPC C++ compiler, focusing on running standard parallel algorithms on GPUs. He is a member of the ISO C++ committee, where he was the champion for the extended floating-point feature in C++23.
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