C++ celebrated its 30th anniversary last month and this prompted the PVS-Studio team to use its static code analysis tool to look for bugs in the very first C++ compiler, Cfront. This may seem like a ...

My goalposts are immobile - they're my lived experience. My experience is the voluminous output of static analysers is not mostly legit - it's mostly false positives. But the time taken to establish ...

The ICPC is a programming competition held every year for universities worldwide. This year the inventor of C++, Bjarne Stoustrup, was interviewed about the suitability of this language for ...

Mention Bjarne Stroustrup’s (Fig. 1) name to programmers, and they think of C++.That’s not surprising since he came up with the object-oriented programming language and continues to be involved in the ...

In practice, we know what the code is "meant" to do, it's just that the programmer is unclear about how to express that in fully-defined C++. Rewriting incrementally in Rust, with bindings between C++ ...

> It could be made a lot safer very easily. You have made way to many typos in the word “impossible”. And that would also lead to a far better general spec. You could then implement other compilers' ...