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Interview With Bjarne Stroustrup

Posted by Hemos on from the talking-with-the-giants dept.

koval writes "artima.com has published an initial portion of interview with Bjarne Stroustrup. The scope of first part is mostly about improving the style of C++ programming and getting maximum from a language."

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  1. Re:Compilers by X · · Score: 4, Interesting
    as any C++ programmer knows, most compilers completely blow when it comes to standards conformance at the moment.
    This is the conventional wisdom. It is (sadly) based on how things used to be. However, there has been a significant amount of progress in the last few years with regards to standards compliance. Aside from the Comeau compiler, you have Microsoft's, Intel's, IBM's, and G++. The last time I used Sun's C++ compiler, the only problems I had were with the antiquated version of the STL that they insist on using for backwards compatilibity purposes. The lastest issue of Dr. Dobbs has actually looked at this based on examples from the C++ standard, and while Borland seems to be making little progress (I don't think their compiler itself has changed in a while), most of the other vendors are rapidly approaching full compliance (although export seems to remain a mystery to everyone besides Comeau).
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