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Interview with Stanley Lippman, Mr. Visual C++

Posted by Hemos on from the what's-happening-with-visual-c++ dept.

Bender writes "Stanley Lippman, who is best known for his work on the C++ language, recently became the head honcho for Microsoft's Visual C++ product. This is a link to a recent interview in which he discusses standards conformance and Microsoft's policy towards C99."

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  1. MS puff piece by aminorex · · Score: 0, Troll

    Everybody who writes at the code project site
    is whoring for the beast. Lippmann is now
    whoring for the beast. It's a cute ploy,
    to bless VC++ with the C++ logo by
    waving Lippmann's name over it, but it's quite
    clear in the text of the article that MS has no
    intention of implementing C++ or of being
    interoperable with conformant implementations of
    C++. VC++ is in fact being crushed in the vice
    of embrace-and-extend. They don't WANT you to be
    able to write portable code, and it's getting
    harder every day, not easier.

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    -I like my women like I like my tea: green-
  2. Embrace and extend? by shnarez · · Score: 0, Troll
    On the topic of extending Visual C++ to embrace the new features found in the C99 specification...
    Here we go again.