sPHENIX discussion of software

[David Morrison <dave AT bnl.gov>]

Hi all,

I’ve been perusing the slides and videoed talks of C++con, which is a yearly 
conference about … C++.  The website for this year’s instance of the 
conference is here: http://cppcon.org/  and there’s a whole YouTube channel 
with recordings of the talks here: https://www.youtube.com/user/CppCon

A lot of the talks are pretty technical, like Andrei Alexandrescu’s 
“std::allocator Is to Allocation what std::vector Is to Vexation”, but some 
of them are more general.  I watched a fair bit of Titus Winter’s talk 
"Lessons in Sustainability: How to Maintain a C++ Codebase for Decades”, 
which discussed issues I found very familiar from the perspective of a 
knowing how hard it is to deal with long-lived code in our environment..  
tl;dr summary: integrate testing deeply into your code development, not 
because it shows that the code is correct today, but because it makes sure 
that today's assumptions are respected by tomorrow’s code (and tomorrow’s 
coder).

Anyway, some of the material might be interesting for the folks on this 
mailing list.

Dave

David Morrison  Brookhaven National Laboratory  phone: 631-344-5840
                                Physics Department, Bldg 510 C  email: 
dave AT bnl.gov
                                Upton, NY 11973-5000

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