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From: Peter Eklund <peter>
To: frank, ged@cs.rmit.edu.au, alburrow, dna@gisca.adelaide.edu.au,
        Simon.Ratcliffe@adelaide.maptek.com.au
Subject: C++ Workshop on Feb 28
Date: Wed, 5 Feb 1997 11:29:55 +1030 (CST)


Dear All. 

thanks for agreeing to present at the C++ workshop on February 28. The
workshop will be held on the premisses of Maptek. Your presentation
should be of 45 minutes duration allowing 15 minutes for general
discussion and questions.

Of particularly interest to the audience is an answer to "why C++?"
Your seminar should illustrate both powerful langauge features and
also present weaknesses. The C++ libraries and environments in which
you work should be clearly described and the debugging and other
programming aids in these environments illustrated.

If you subscribe to a strict programming and software engineering
methodology which has particular significance to your use of C++ (or
your productivity) then these too should be covered. 

To further help you perpare your talk consider about answers to the
following:

1. Do you have a philosophy of programming? 

2. Does that philosophy only have expression in C++ or is it more general?

3. What is your software engineering methodology, from where does it come? 

4. How does this methodology help in the control of software complexity? 

5. Can you illustrate your talk with the use of complex but elegant
code that will make you look good?

6. How do you manage your memory? 

7. How secure is your code, in terms of correctness? 

8. Are your techniques scalable, i.e. will the approach work with a
team of 10 programmers?
 
9. What do you see as the inter-relationship between C++ and Java?


If you don't yet have a theme then construct a hypothesis and canvass
the pros and cons of the hypothesis. I will need a title, bio data and
short abstract from each of you so I can advertise. The deadline is
one weeks time, i.e. Feb 12.

The final part of the day will be a group discussion on C++ and Java
that will allow everyone to particpate. The audience will all be
hardcore Computer Scientist and Engineers who cut code so there is no
need to be shy of techical content.

Any questions, email or call me. 

All the best!
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