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<h2>Articles and Papers</h2>
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<p><b><a href="count_bdy.htm">Counted Body Techniques</a></b> by <a href="../people/kevlin_henney.htm">Kevlin
Henney</a> is must reading for those interested in reference counting, a
widely used object management idiom. Originally published in <a href="http://www.accu.org/c++sig/public/Overload.html">Overload</a>
magazine.</p>
<p><b><a href="feature_model_diagrams.htm">Feature Model Diagrams in text and
HTML</a></b> describes how to represent feature model diagrams in text form.</p>
<p><b><a href="borland_cpp.html">Portability Hints: Borland C++ 5.5.1</a></b>
describes Borland C++ portability issues, with suggested workarounds.</p>
<p><a href="microsoft_vcpp.html"><b>Portability Hints: Microsoft VC++ 6.0 SP4</b></a>
describes Microsoft C++ portability issues, with suggested workarounds.</p>
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<a href="http://www.ansi.org">ANSI</a> (American National Standards Institute)
Electronic Standards Store. The price is $US 18.00. The document is
certainly not a tutorial, but is interesting to those who care about the
precise specification of the language and the standard library.</p>
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