Google's JavaScript engine is a wonderful C++ library that works on many platforms and runs JavaScript code with speeds that are comparable with a natively built and fully optimized C++ code. Awesome. Sign me up. All I need to do now is to build this wonderful library, which should be as easy as saying: "Hey, Google!". Right? I wish... Once you start the process, you quickly learn that writing up-to-date documentation isn't one of the qualities Google excels at.

The C++ #include directive is probably the most commonly misused construct of the language. Generally accepted and rarely disputed practice today is to use angle brackets for standard headers and double quotes for internal header files and, sometimes, for 3rd-party libraries, which at the first glance is well-aligned with the C++ standard that suggests the following use of the #include directive:

Note: Although an implementation may provide a mechanism for making arbitrary source files available to the < > search, in general programmers should use the < > form for headers provided with the implementation, and the " " form for sources outside the control of the implementation.