Lakos works at Bloomberg and his design principles from the book have been in use there for over a decade. The book content might seem strange for someone codin

Lakos works at Bloomberg and his design principles from the book have been in use there for over a decade. The book content might seem strange for someone coding on their own, but when you have a staggering amount of C++, the order it brings to the chaos is welcome. If you wind up reading it you can see the concepts in practice in our GH repo (bloomberg/bde), which might make it an easier read.