POCO C++ Libraries Blog

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The Problem with Programming

A fresh Bjarne Stroustrup’s interview .


Poco 1.3.0b1

A first beta of the upcoming Poco 1.3 release is available for download. Release Notes: ========================== – added HashMap, HashSet classes – added Poco::Tuple – added AbstractCache::getAllKeys(), improved performance of the get operation – fixed AbstractCache::size() to do cache replacement before returning the size – added additional match() method to RegularExpression and documented the fact […]


Introducing PocoDoc

PocoDoc, the documentation generator used by POCO, can now be found in the SVN sandbox. A short HowTo that explains how to build and run PocoDoc can be found in the Wiki.


2006: A Software Odyssey

Neal Gafter laments about generics in Java. It is interesting to read various opinions on Java “generics” ranging from “they spoiled the language”, to “let’s (re)do it right”. Sigh. Someone please send Java “visionaries” back to future .