Linking to the FQA

If you liked the FQA and wish to spread the word, here are some images for the link face. If you link to the FQA or just found it interesting, I'd be happy if you dropped me a line.

• Plain vanilla images
• Images with keywords in them
• The Horror. The Horror.
• Advertising the infrastructure of your site
• Exclusively for hardware designers: Say No to SystemC

Plain vanilla images

In this category, we have a C++ FQA Lite image and a Defective C++ image in our stock. For those suffering from webophobia like myself (I do hope nobody will ever see my publishing software): the HTML code below each image can be pasted right into many of the Web 2.0 thingies, such as blog update screens.

<a href="http://yosefk.com/c++fqa">
<img src="http://yosefk.com/c++fqa/images/fqa.png"
     alt="[C++ FQA Lite]" border=0>
</a>

<a href="http://yosefk.com/c++fqa/defective.html">
<img src="http://yosefk.com/c++fqa/images/defective.png"
     alt="[Defective C++]" border=0>
</a>

Images with keywords in them

Now that's what I call "designing keywords".

<a href="http://yosefk.com/c++fqa">
<img src="http://yosefk.com/c++fqa/images/static.png"
     alt="[C++ gives me static]" border=0>
</a>

WARNING: The next image is incomprehensible for people who didn't undergo a prolonged exposure to C++. Actually, so are many other things in the FQA... Oh, well.

<a href="http://yosefk.com/c++fqa">
<img src="http://yosefk.com/c++fqa/images/overload.png"
     alt="[C::operator++(int): invalid overload]" border=0>
</a>

This one is for people who don't like to shift output streams to the left (copywriter: Maciej Katafiasz).

<a href="http://yosefk.com/c++fqa">
<img src="http://yosefk.com/c++fqa/images/operator.png"
     alt="[operator<< is not my friend]" border=0>
</a>

The Horror. The Horror.

The following rendering of a terrifying real-world analogy is especially suitable for a blog featuring world-class cat pictures. Cat++, the cat with the seven legs and the wing, is a better cat, but also a scalable leg-oriented animal, not to mention excellent support for generic limbs.

Upgrade to a modern pet with more features today!

<a href="http://yosefk.com/c++fqa">
<img src="http://yosefk.com/c++fqa/images/cat.png"
     alt="[Cat++, a superset of cat]" border=0>
</a>

Advertising the infrastructure of your site

Remember all those "Powered by Something" banners, showing off the inner workings of a site? Well, now you can impress the tech-savvy visitors, conveying a strong feeling of reliability and security:

<a href="http://yosefk.com/c++fqa">
<img src="http://yosefk.com/c++fqa/images/not-crippled.png"
     alt="[This site is not crippled by C++]" border=0>
</a>

What's that? Your site is running software written in C++? Then you can really impress people with the exceptional skills of the engineers behind the enterprise, who somehow manage to prevent the whole thing from collapsing:

<a href="http://yosefk.com/c++fqa">
<img src="http://yosefk.com/c++fqa/images/not-entirely.png"
     alt="[This site is not entirely crippled by C++]" border=0>
</a>

Exclusively for hardware designers: Say No to SystemC

SystemC is a hardware description pseudo-language, implemented as a C++ template library. Other implementations are possible for the "synthesizable subset"; these, of course, defeat the purpose of using C++, since the subset is essentially a more verbose version of a real HDL.

SystemC brings the fun experienced daily by millions of software developers to the desk of the hardware designer. Well, there is one difference - the software developers are of course at a much better position when it comes to dealing with the quirks of C++, such as operator overloading. But the funniest thing about SystemC is the name - specifically, the lack of the two plus signs in it. The pesky plus signs would scare off the embedded software engineers who frequently hang out with hardware hackers, so off they went - C++ marketing played backwards! Sadly enough, those embedded engineers largely didn't do a very good job explaining their attitude towards C++, and the time came to pay for it, watching C++ code invading their world.

Here's a link face for people who don't like the combination of the clarity of C++ and the simulation speed of RTL:

<a href="http://yosefk.com/c++fqa">
<img src="http://yosefk.com/c++fqa/images/systemc.png"
     alt="[System C: putting the 'hard' in hardware design]" border=0>
</a>