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From: Bakul Shah <bakul@plexuscom.com>
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> Not exactly on subject, but does anyone know of a C++ class library for
> network servers?  Or is C++ still mainly for cooking application-level
> code?

C++ is eminently useful for doing network servers.  See
    http://siesta.cs.wustl.edu/~schmidt/ACE.html
for one example of it.  I cooked up something much more light-weight
at a previous job but I can't give it away.   While I am at this,
I will also recommend

Design Patterns, 
Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software
by
Erich Gamma, Richard Helm, Ralph Johnson, John Vlissides 
Hard-cover, 416 pages, Addison-Wesley 1995, ISBN 0-201-63361-2. 

If you can get past all the O-O buzzwords this is a very useful book
on how to structure large software projects, it has examples of
patterns (or idioms) useful in many different contexts etc.