(ref.doc)ccuj-mar98

C/C++ Users Journal
March 98
UNIX

p 85 C++ Q&A by Pete Becker
Understanding Access Restrictions
  Orthogonal: when you change one item, things that are orthogonal to
  that item aren't changed. [...]
  Rather than adding a set of operations that make sense for a string,
  the decision to make a string into an STL container brings in a set
  of operations that's not very closely related to the set of things
  that the string class needs to do. In particular, you can now apply
  the algorithm random_shuffle to a string [...]

p 89 C++ by Dan Saks
Basing Style on Design Principles
  Grady Booch: The task of the software development team is to
  engineer the illusion of simplicity.
  On being strict: standard C++ does not allow empty declarations. It
  allows an extraneous semicolon only after a function definition in
  class scope.