Xtc20040810

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Topics for discussion:

• Project politics, neutralising aspiring authoritative experts, and ensuring the game is we win or I lose rather than I win even if we lose.
• Viral morality, or why C++ programmers treat const as a moral issue. Const is viral, if you have a const reference then you can not use it in a function that takes a non-const reference. There are enough reasons to use const references, they provide a clean fast interface to the sender, the implementer needs to deal with the restriction. What's worse, non const references have subtly different semantics from pass by value, they do not support automatic type conversions. However the moral argument has spread well beyound the reasons for it's existance.
• ArchitectNeutralisationPatterns? or what to do when you're lumbered with an 'Architect'

Who's going to be there:

• DanPollitt
• BryceKampjes
• PeterBrown
• AlanGriffiths
• AdewaleOshineye
• ThomasRynne

Who can't make it:

• RachelDavies