Acknowledgments

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Many thanks to series editor Bjarne Stroustrup, and to Debbie Lafferty, Tyrrell Albaugh, Chanda Leary-Coutu, Charles Leddy, Curt Johnson, and the rest of the Addison-Wesley team for their assistance and persistence during this project. It's hard to imagine a better bunch of people to work with, and their enthusiasm and cooperation has helped make this book everything I'd hoped it would become.

One other group of people deserves thanks and credit, namely the many expert reviewers who generously offered their insightful comments and savage criticisms exactly where they were needed. Their efforts have made the text you hold in your hands that much more complete, more readable, and more useful than it would otherwise have been. Special thanks to (in the approximate order that I received their review comments) Scott Meyers, Jan Christiaan van Winkel, Steve Dewhurst, Dennis Mancl, Jim Hyslop, Steve Clamage, Kevlin Henney, Andrew Koenig, Patrick McKillen, as well as several anonymous reviewers. The remaining errors, omissions, and shameless puns are mine, not theirs.

Finally, thanks most of all to my family and friends for always being there, during this project and otherwise.

Herb Sutter
Toronto, June 2001

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