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Latest Proposals for C++0x

Posted by michael on from the +++ dept.

CodeDemon writes "It looks like the ISO/IEC JTC1/SC22/WG21 working group has made some headway in reviewing new proposals for the C++ language. The long anticipated upgrade for C++, C++0x, may be just around the corner. Head on over to check out the proposals yourself."

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  1. Re:where does the name come from? by Joe+Decker · · Score: 5, Informative

    Language revs are often referred to by the year of the completion of their standardizatioin (e.g., C++98.) The next C++ would presumably be somewhere in this decade, e.g., C++05 or so, but of course nobody is sure what year the work would be completed in, ergo C++0x.

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  2. Re:Why C didn't progress to D.. by td · · Score: 4, Informative

    B didn't come from anything called A, but from a language called bon, named for Ken Thompson's wife Bonnie. (At least, that's what Ken says, but he's famous for pulling the legs of people who drool over stupid trivia from his past.) The inspiration for bon was Martin Richards' BCPL, a stripped version of Christopher Strachey's [et al] CPL (Combined Programming Language, I think; the B in BCPL is for Bootstrap or Basic, sources differ.) It doesn't stretch the truth too far to think of B as an even-more stripped down BCPL.

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  3. Who cares? by KalvinB · · Score: 4, Informative

    The extra bloat in Visual Basic is forced into my projects wether I use it or not.

    C++ on the other hand can have all the extra stuff it wants and it doesn't affect my project. If I don't wan to use templates or whatever, I don't have to. And the compiler won't force me to include anything.

    Whining about C++ having too many features is like bitching that Baskin Robbins has too many flavors. Nobody is forcing you to buy them.

    Ben

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