"Effective Modern C++" had nothing on "Modern C++ Design", published in 2001. A coworker lovingly referred to it as "The Anarchists Cookbook of C++". My unders

"Effective Modern C++" had nothing on "Modern C++ Design", published in 2001. A coworker lovingly referred to it as "The Anarchists Cookbook of C++". My understanding at the time of publication was that there was no shipping compiler that could deal with his implementation library for the book, "Loki". My impression of C++ changes since then has not been that they were adding new capabilities, but rather trying to add proper ways to achieve the desired compile time/runtime/memory behavior without resorting to (at least as much) arcane template metaprogramming.