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 Dagmar Hammarskjold sounds cool ... First name sounds female to me, which makes it even better 
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It's actually from Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged.
He's a sort of Robin Hood - he steals from corrupt governments (which in the book is all of them) and what we would call today "crony capitalists", uses some of his gains to pay his expenses, and keeps the rest in escrow until the Producers of the world finally throw off the moochers and other parasites. These Producers will then be reimbursed each according to what corruption, mooochers, and parasites cost them.
A rather idealistic view of piracy, but then the whole book is a polemic.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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This territory is quite unknown to me ... looks like a good read , thanks for the reference ...
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Be careful! You are treading on thin ice  Hard to see any mention of that author as non-political. Almost like that German guy M**x 
Mircea
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I'm well aware that Ayn Rand was a very controversial author. I did not discuss her views on politics, religion, or any other subject.
I fail to see how a short outline of one of the characters in her most well-known book constitutes a political / religious / other debate.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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In case the smilies in my message didn’t show it, let me spell it clearly that my reply was in jest. 😀
Let me head out before the thought police arrives 😜
Mircea
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Accurate description of the character, but it's Ragnar Danneskjold.
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That's good to read, because Dagmar is indeed a female name.
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Oops. My bad. 
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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It is.
Female that is.
Cool is in the eye of the beholder I suspect, to me its the name of a grandma.
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Hey, I totally rocked the eye patch last winter while I was waiting to get my prosthetic eye...
(and being a dad, I drove the pirate jokes into the ground at Mach 2)
Software Zen: delete this;
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Statistically, they prefer to program in ARRR?
Keep Calm and Carry On
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I don't remember where I saw it but that joke reminded me of this:
What's the difference between a casual dress party and a pirate orgy? With one you come as you are, the other you Arrr! as you come.
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That is brutal! +5
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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That is awesome; a dad joke and dirty, all at the same time!
Software Zen: delete this;
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You must have avast array puns for today. Schooner or later you’ll get around posting them.
If you can't laugh at yourself - ask me and I will do it for you.
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...if the guy who coined the phrase “One Hit Wonder” ever came up with any other slogans?
If you can't laugh at yourself - ask me and I will do it for you.
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last week I ordered a used book from Amazon: The Annotated C++ Reference Manual.
I reviewed few topics and felt it is really a great book still.
I wonder if I still need to go through it in my spare time....
diligent hands rule....
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My 1990 (1st?) edition is within arms length. Happy reading!
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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it is 1996 version. that link is not right...
diligent hands rule....
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Why buy such an old book to read? Most probably some of the contents do not apply to modern C++ syntax and compiler.
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You are correct - C++20 departed a lot from Stroustroup's vision, but it is still a good book for learning how he envisioned it would work, and some of the principles he outlines are important even to today's C++ programmers.
I would say that it is still a book well worth reading.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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knowing its history can bring understanding to its beginning and future...
diligent hands rule....
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