Software Engineers Wanted (If You Can Find Any)

NOTE: This event is NOT on a first-Wed of the month like usual, since Object Oriented Programming - Back to Basics (https://www.meetup.com/ACCU-Bay-Area/events/263396512/) is scheduled at that time.

## Abstract

Are we really software engineers? Our profession seems a lot more like programming than software engineering. Engineering is based on the laws of physics, or chemistry, or something. Are there at least best practices? It's really difficult to find multiple programmers that agree on the right way to write code, so industry-standard best practices are often elusive, too. This talk gives the closest thing the author has ever found to a principled foundation for how we should write code in C++.

## About the speaker

Zach Laine has been using C++ in the industry for 16 years, focusing on data visualization, numeric computing, games, generic programming, and good library design. He's a C++ standard committee member and a Boost library author. He finds the process of writing bio blurbs to be a little uncomfortable.