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We are pleased to have Bruce Eckel, one of the world's leading
speakers and writers on C++ and author of "Thinking in C++"
this month.

THE ADVANCED C++ SIG OF SOFTWARE FORUM
(Silicon Valley)
presents

Succeeding with C++ Through an Understanding of
Language Design

  C++ has bridged the gap between C and the object-oriented 
world. This presentation will look at the most important 
trade-offs in C++, in particular backwards compatibility 
with C and strong static type checking.   An understanding 
of the goals and compromises of language design of C++ can 
be very helpful when making design decisions or looking 
or design problems in an existing program to produce 
a successful project.  

  Bruce Eckel has written several books including 
Thinking in C++, C++ Inside & Out,  and edited
Black-Belt C++.  He is a member of the C++ Standards 
Committee and has written for such publications 
as Embedded Systems Programming, The C Gazette, 
Software Development, and Windows Tech Journal.  
Bruce speaks regularly at conferences around the world 
and is C++ Track Chair for the Software 
Conference.



Date:  Friday, Oct.  13,  6:15 to 8:15 p.m.
Meeting Schedule:
     6:15 to 6:45   Tutorial by Jonathan Harvey,
                     NASA-Ames Research Center
     6:45 to 8:15   Presentation by Bruce Eckel
Location:  UC Santa Cruz Extension, 
	   3120 De La Cruz Blvd., Santa Clara 
	   Hwy 101 to Trimble,  circle off parkway to
	   left at first light, left to first driveway
Contact:   Marian Corcoran, mcorcora@ix.netcom.com
Donation:  $10.00, $3.00 for students


Where *does* the money go?
The Software Forum is a professional organization involved in the
following (among other things):
1.  Produces a newsletter which is mailed to 1000 software
professionals, keeping them aware of current trends.  This publicity
from the newsletter is what draws many of my speakers, who are very
good.  This is a highly t
echnical group, and I cannot bring in someone from marketing to make a 
presentation.

2.  Protects the interests of the software industry in the legislature.
 Recently an agency quietly tried to add the following to the list of
activities it would control:
   software development
Do you really want to fill out forms and get a license to code?  

3.  Protects the software industry in the courts.  Currently a company
is trying to copyright a data structure.  Setting such a precedence
could do a great deal of harm to software development in this country.

4.  Started the Center for Software Development, a not-for-profit
computer lab with reasonable rates for new and small buinesses to be
able to try out their products on different platforms and test
different software.  Th
is work was co-sponsored by many companies including GTE, Motorola,
Novell, Hewlett Packard, IBM, SUN, etc.

If a movie is worth $8, then I believe all of the above, a speaker, and
interaction with an excellent audience 
is worth $10.



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