C++

C++ is an attempt to turn the C language into a high level, object-oriented programming language. It is worth no more than, and sometimes less than C to TUNES (ABI issues make inter-language work particularly nasty). Its object system is a poorly designed, ugly, class based hack, with poor support for multiple inheritance and no support for multiple dispatch. C++ is worthless. For any task, there is a better choice of language.
--seaslug

Not everyone agrees with such flamebaiting language. There are many systems programming tasks where C++ is a fine language.

Alternative syntaxes

Python-like formatting rules:
- cugar;
- Cython.

Books

Thinking in C++ Bruce Eckel's very good introduction to C++.

Critics

C++?? a critique of C++, Java, and Eiffel with a (somewhat deserved) bias towards Eiffel.

Compilers

GCC: the famous GNU Compiler Collection, formerly the GNU C Compiler.
The Intel C++ Compiler: Known to produce faster binaries than GCC.
OdinMP OpenMP C compiler a compiler for shared-memory parallel programming in C/C++ using the OpenMP API.
pC++/Sage++ Home Page a portable parallel C++ for high performance computers. pC++ is a language extention to C++ that permits data-parallel style opertations using "collections of objects" from some base "element" class.

Libraries

Lisp Plus Plus a library of Lisp-like functions and macros usable in C++ programs.
Boost C++ libraries a large repository of free peer-reviewed portable C++ source libraries.
In particular see Boost Lambda Library a C++ template library providing lambda functions, function argument binding, and tuple types.
Charm++ a parallel C++ library, and AMPI, an adaptive MPI implementation, provide processor virtualization.
GRETA Greta Regular Expression Template Archive, a fast flexible PERL-compliant regular expression template library for C++.

Tutorials

Introduction To Object Oriented Programming Using C++.

Other

Illinois Concert C++ (ICC++) a high performance dialect of C++ which supports for parallel computation on shared memory and distributed memory machines.
UC++ Project an extension of C++, incorporating in an integral way active objects, which allows the language to be used for building parallel systems.
FC++: Functional Programming in C++ Higher-Order Polymorphic Functions in C++.
FOG - Flexible Object Generator a meta-compiler for a super-set C++ whith preprocessing facilities using meta-object concepts. It renders the C preprocessor obsolete, eliminates substantial lexical redundancy from C++ and generalises C++ so that patterns can be realised by using meta-functions.
The Frost Project (at freshmeat) a compiler wrapper that allows use multi-methods in C++ programs nearly as if they were a builtin feature.
GNU E (ftp) a persistent C++ variant, the language for EXODUS, an Extensible OO Database System Toolkit, wich as has been succeded by the SHORE project, an High-Performance, Scalable, Persistent Object Repository.
Prop a pattern language, C++ extension, includes string matching, algebraic datatypes, SML-style pattern-matching, pretty printing, term and graph rewriting.
Template metaprogramming.
TGC (Template garbage collector).
Cmm - C++ with MultiMethods.
FACT! Functional Additions to C++ through Templates and Classes: multiparadigm programming with C++ (imperative, OO, functional).

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