It reminds me of an incident involving an old colleague of mine at some kind of graduate recruitment fair thing. He walked past a stand which was trying to hire engineers which had some code on the wall when the following exchange happened:

   Recruiter: Hey there! <indicates the code> Do you know what this is?
   Colleague: Err, <looks…thinks for a bit>… It *looks* like some sort of network protocol
   Recruiter: <smug> No, it’s *COMPUTER CODE*

Its crazy to me how little effort publishers put into the basic parts of their job sometimes. Its even funnier that raymond chen of all people is the one calling this out

I wonder if the book itself is actually any good.

My understanding is that authors often have little or not control over the covers chosen by their publishers.

It's at least possible that the book itself is excellent, but I'm not going to spend $90+ on a hardcover copy to find out.

This post discusses the topic and makes several key observations.

At least the JavaScript image is excusable since most implementations are made in C++.

A clear case of human slop.

i so wanted it to be the cover of stroustrup book :P

fwiw, i stopped keepin up with c++ in 2003. saved my sanity!

auto get_xyz_position() -> std::unordered_map<std::string, double *> { ... }