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Interview With Herb Sutter

Posted by Hemos on from the working-with-the-crowd dept.

Anonymous Coward writes "Herb Sutter, a C++ luminary, recently joined Microsoft's Developer Platform and Evangelism Division, where he acts as a liaison between Microsoft and the C++ developer community. In this interview he speaks about his new job, the role of C++ in the .NET framework, and the current state of C++."

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  1. Re:VC++ will provide what the community needs... by x0n · · Score: 4, Funny

    Nope, it definitely doesn't work.

    c:\linux\src\kernel>nmake
    Microsoft (R) 32-bit C/C++ Optimizing Compiler Version 13.00.9466 for 80x86
    Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation 1984-2001. All rights reserved.

    kernel.c
    kernel.c(3) : error : Invalid token : expecting "(C)", found "GPL".

    compile aborted.
    c:\linux\src\kernel>

    bugger.

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    PGP KeyId: 0x08D63965
  2. yeah right by Foss · · Score: 2, Funny

    "The need for a flexible programming language that can handle everything from high-level abstraction to bit-twiddling, all unified within the same language, isn't going away anytime soon."

    I think he forgot to add "because we have waaaay too many bugs to fix" at the end of that sentence. :)

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  3. Oxymoron by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

    C++ luminaire

  4. Re:Hm... by egott · · Score: 2, Funny

    I vote for replacing -nologo with its inverse first. Another good switch would be "-please-dont-core-dump-on-syntax-errors".

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