acknowledgments

I’d like to thank everyone who made this book possible: my professor Saša Malkov, for making me love C++; Aco Samardžic´, for teaching me the importance of writing readable code; my friend Nikola Jelic´, for convincing me that functional programming is great; Zoltán Porkoláb, for supporting me in the notion that functional programming and C++ are a good mixture; and Mirjana Maljkovic´, for help teaching our students modern C++ techniques, including functional programming concepts.

Also, big kudos to Sergey Platonov and Jens Weller, for organizing great C++ conferences for those of us who live in the old world. It’s safe to say that without all these people, this book wouldn’t exist.

I want to thank my parents, my sister Sonja, and my better half, Milica, for always supporting me in fun endeavors like this one; and I thank my long-time friends from KDE who helped me evolve as a developer during the past decade—most of all, Marco Martin, Aaron Seigo, and Sebastian Kügler.