Developer, Former MVP, now at Microsoft - Best of 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013
After a recent talk I gave on C++ AMP, one attendee was complaining that they were not familiar with lambdas and another found templates hard to parse. In case you are in the same boat, I thought I'd gather some essential reading material for you (also gives me one link to use in the future for referring people to ;-)
Lambdas are available (in some shape or form) in all modern languages, so do yourself a favor and learn about them:
Templates, have been around in modern languages for even longer than lambdas (e.g. Generics in .NET), so again go dive in:
In fact, why don't you refresh your knowledge and read the entire msdn C++ Language Reference – that's what I am doing!
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