Dan Saks is the president of Saks & Associates, a C/C++ training and consulting company. He is also a consulting editor for the C/C++ Users Journal. He served for many years as secretary of the C++ standards committtee. With Thomas Plum, he wrote C++ Programming Guidelines (Plum Hall). You can visit him at www.dansaks.com or contact him at dsaks@wittenberg.edu.

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