1. "Linux System Programming: Talking Directly to the Kernel and C Library" by Robert Love2. "The Linux programming interface" by Michael KerriskThe second book is massive but really good. For some low-level issues "The Software Optimization Cookbook" by Richard Gerber et al.

What do you mean by basic numerical problems? Numerical integration? Some numerical algebra such as LU, etc? Or more quant related FDM, Monte Carlo, binary trees, etc?

@Cuchulain: what version of VS are you using?

One question: what's the difference between passing a raw pointer and the internal pointerstored inside the smart pointer you access with the get() function?

Google "oleview", it's a tool from MSFT. With that tool File | View TypeLib menu option.

What about Spain?

<t>Yes, a virtual destructor in a base class declared as pure virtual must have some implementation. A destructor in a base class is virtual if it'sexplicitly declared as virtual. class A{public: ~A(); // Non virtual by default};class A1{public: // Must implement this. If not then linker complains w...

Well if the destructor is a pure virtual function you must have it implemented. If not, the linker complains.

I think that's a Riccati equation: y'(x) = q0(x) + q1(x)*y + q2(x)*y^2In the Wikipedia you can find a method to solve the equation. RiccatiEqHope it helps.

Not exactly difficult. Some are tricky, some are about STL details you must have memorized (weird!). Most of them are about syntax.

Hello, I think it will be a Brainbench C++ test. Forty questions about C++ syntax and some STL details.

What about a similar test in C++?

No, C is not faster than C++ but what I meant is that it's easier to code faster code in C than C++ (well, except if you use C++ as a "better C", then it's just the same).

<t>The common missconception is to think that just programming in C++ means faster executables. That simply is not true. Is much easier to write the fastest code in C than in C++. Writing very fast code in C++ is very difficult and it takes a very long time to master the craft. Don't compare your C+...

This book about QuantLib it's an idea. I'm going to think about it.