Stan Lippman On Version 2 Of Managed C++

Lansdowne writes "Stan Lippman, one of the founding fathers of C++ and currently a language architect at Microsoft, has prepared an exhaustive translation guide, comparing old Managed C++ to the revised CLI/.NET version of C++. According to Lippman, "There are a number of significant weaknesses in the original language design (Version 1), which we feel are corrected in the revised language design (Version 2).""

Comments

Love the syntax!

[Anonymous Coward]

C++:

namespace Foo {
}

Microsoft Managed C++:

public ref class Foo abstract sealed {
}

Far be it from me to dare to consider accusing them of pointless, nay indeed redundant or tautologous, verbosity, but I do think they're using too many words.