Paradigm Construction : Applied C++ Meta-Programming by Dominic Robinson
Details
The C++ language already supports a rich variety of programming paradigms; some intended, some serendipitous. This talk will look at how we can go further, combining and building on techniques new and old, to extend C++'s repertoire without recourse to compiler engineering.
Using Jim Coplien and Trygve Reenskaug's DCI paradigm as an example, this talk will present a conceptual framework and practical techniques for implementing such paradigms in today's C++.
C++ is a strongly class oriented language. We will consider how adding DCI's first class concepts of Contexts and Roles can open doors to new ways of structuring and thinking about C++ code.
Topics will include: reflection, meta-programming, object composition and code generation.
For a grounding in DCI, see Jim Coplien's keynote at ACCU 2016: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQQ_CahFVzw
And for a grounding in some of the template meta-programming techniques used, see Odin Holmes' "The fastest template metaprogramming in the west" talk at code::dive 2017: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZpVPexZHYrQ
About Our Speaker
Dominic has mis-spent the last 30 years and counting developing video games, flight simulators and software development tools in various assembly languages, C and C++. He founded and sold a video games company during the .com boom and is now a principal engineer at SN Systems, the subsidiary of Sony Interactive Entertainment that is responsible for the development tools for the Sony PlayStation platforms. He has spent the last 8 years developing a fault tolerant, distributed build accelerator in C++ in the style of Erlang. He continues to cling to the hope that there are better ways of expressing concurrency in a manner more accessible to humans.
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Sponsors
This event is sponsored by Oxford Computer Consultants (https://www.oxfordcc.co.uk/) and JetBrains (https://www.jetbrains.com/).
JetBrains (https://www.jetbrains.com/) has donated a 1 year single personal use license to any one of the JetBrains Toolbox products (https://www.jetbrains.com/products.html)to be the prize in the meeting's raffle.
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