Acknowledgments

Many thanks to series editor Bjarne Stroustrup, to editors Peter Gordon and Debbie Lafferty, and to Tyrrell Albaugh, Kim Boedigheimer, John Fuller, Bernard Gaffney, Curt Johnson, Chanda Leary-Coutu, Charles Leddy, Heather Mullane, Chuti Prasertsith, Lara Wysong, and the rest of the Addison-Wesley team for their assistance and persistence during this project. They are a real pleasure to work with.

Inspiration for some of the "sound bites" came from many sources, including the playful style of [Cline99], the classic import this of [Peters99], and the legendary and eminently quotable Alan Perlis.

We especially want to thank the people whose technical feedback has helped to make many parts of this book better than they would otherwise have been. Series editor Bjarne Stroustrup's incisive comments from concept all the way through to the final draft were heavily influential and led to many improvements. We want to give special thanks to Dave Abrahams, Marshall Cline, Kevlin Henney, Howard Hinnant, Jim Hyslop, Nicolai Josuttis, Jon Kalb, Max Khesin, Stan Lippman, Scott Meyers, and Daveed Vandevoorde for their active participation in review cycles and detailed comments on several drafts of this material. Other valuable comments and feedback were contributed by Chuck Allison, Samir Bajaj, Marc Barbour, Damian Dechev, Steve Dewhurst, Peter Dimov, Alan Griffiths, Michi Henning, James Kanze, Matt Marcus, Petru Marginean, Robert C. "Uncle Bob" Martin, Jeff Peil, Peter Pirkelbauer, Vladimir Prus, Dan Saks, Luke Wagner, Matthew Wilson, and Leor Zolman.

As usual, the remaining errors, omissions, and shameless puns are ours, not theirs.

Herb Sutter
Andrei Alexandrescu

Seattle, September 2004