> Hope you guys are enjoying C++ Now! We use Boost.Spirit for all our parsing and generation. What I mean by that is that when you have to parse input or generate output, we don’t use std::stringstream, we don’t use the C libraries and we definitely don’t write custom parsers or generators.
We don’t actually have “coding rules” at Bureau 14, at least, not in the sense you would expect them. One one hand, we think it’s best to give as much freedom as possible to the developers and prevent rules to get in the way of evolution.
“Am I indeed possessed of knowledge? I am not knowing. But if a mean person, who appears quite empty-like, ask anything of me, I set it forth from one end to the other, and exhaust it.” –Confucius We wish you all happy hollidays!
There is a lot of code in this post, it will probably not compile “as is” because of missing headers or compiler’s incompatibilities. Nevertheless, we made available through our open source initiative the full working library on github. It has been tested on Clang 3.1, gcc 4.6.1 and MSVC 11 on FreeBSD, Linux and Windows.
At Bureau 14 we highly value code quality: it’s the corner stone of our software development strategy and certainly one of our core values as a company. We believe that investing in code quality pays off in the long term, especially when our software is entrusted by our customer with mission-critical data.
