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title: C++
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C++



C++
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C++ Organizations
-----------------
[C++
 Standards Committee](http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/)
Issues lists and papers give insight into current status
 and future directions.
[Association of C & C++
 Users](http://www.accu.org)
Over 2400 book reviews, and lots more.

Online Publications
-------------------
[The
 C++ Source](http://www.artima.com/cppsource/index.jsp)
*"The Premier Online Journal for the C++
 Community"*.

Copies of the C++ Standard
--------------------------
[ANSI Store](http://webstore.ansi.org/ansidocstore/product.asp?sku=INCITS%2FISO%2FIEC+14882%2D2003)
The full C++ Standard including TC1 corrections
 (INCITS/ISO/IEC 14882) is available as a PDF document for $18
 US. The document is certainly not a tutorial but is
 interesting to those who care about the precise specification
 of both the language and the standard library.
[Book](http://www.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-0470846747.html)
The full C++ Standard including TC1 corrections is also
 available in book form, list price $65 US. Since the content
 of the book is the same as the much cheaper ANSI PDF, the
 book form is only of interest to those who prefer a physical
 book, say for a school or company library.

Contributed Articles
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[C++ Committee
 Meetings](/community/committee.html)
FAQ for Boost Members wishing to attend a standards
 committee meeting.
[Generic Programming
 Techniques](generic_programming.html)
By [David
 Abrahams](/users/people/dave_abrahams.html) and [Jeremy Siek](/users/people/jeremy_siek.html) describes
 some of the techniques used in Boost libraries.
[Error and Exception
 Handling](error_handling.html)
Describes approaches to errors and exceptions by [David Abrahams](/users/people/dave_abrahams.html).
[Exception-Safety in
 Generic Components](exception_safety.html)
Lessons Learned from Specifying Exception-Safety for the
 C++ Standard Library by [David Abrahams](/users/people/dave_abrahams.html).
[Counted Body
 Techniques](/community/counted_body.html)
By [Kevlin
 Henney](/users/people/kevlin_henney.html) is must reading for those interested in reference
 counting, a widely used object management idiom. Originally
 published in [Overload](http://www.accu.org/index.php/overloadonline)
 magazine.
[Implementation
 Variations](/community/implementation_variations.html)
Sometimes one size fits all, sometimes it doesn't. This
 page deals with the trade-offs.
[Feature
 Model Diagrams in text and HTML](/community/feature_model_diagrams.html)
Describes how to represent feature model diagrams in text
 form.