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cageface on June 12, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: The New C++: Lay down your guns, knives, and clubs

I've always imagined Herb Sutter as a Gandalf-like figure and here he is looking like a partner in a New York law firm. I guess it is possible to achieve guru status without a beard.

I can't wait to get support for the "auto" keyword in XCode.

jpr on June 12, 2011 [–]

Apparently he has had a mustache, so no guru status without facial hair yet:

http://www.xb360info.com/images/herb_sutter.jpg

Luyt on June 12, 2011 | [–]

Ha, you should have seen Alex Martelli while he still had a moustache: http://images-mediawiki-sites.thefullwiki.org/05/3/0/3/32378...

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