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NYC Beman Hackathon

Adobe hosted an exciting and intense half-day Beman hackathon where we worked on adding new Beman libraries, addressed infrastructure issues, and brainstormed designs for the Beman website. It was awesome to collaborate in person. Here’s some of the awesome stuff that got accomplished: New Beman tagline: “Tomorrow’s C++ Standard Libraries Today”. Thanks Nick DeMarco for this great contribution! std::elide paper implementation from Robert Leahy, a first time contributor! Linus Boehm made some great progress creating a std::indirect/std::polymorphic Beman library.

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January 29, 2025

About Beman

I met Beman Dawes when I attended my first C++ committee meeting in 1997. I wasn’t even a committee member at that time; I showed up at the meeting because I was trying to get exception safety into the C++ standard and Andrew Koenig had made it clear that arguing for it over email wasn’t going to cut it; I needed to show my face.

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January 7, 2025

Markdown Syntax Guide

This article offers a sample of basic Markdown syntax that can be used in Hugo content files.

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January 1, 2020