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Bjarne Stroustrup Previews C++0x

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the tired-of-the-word-committee dept.

Szplug writes "Bjarne Stroustrup has a sneak peek at the additions to C++ that he expects will be completed (hopefully) by 2009. Included are language-defined threads, optional garbage collection, some automatic type deduction, and template concepts. From the article: 'The list of current proposals is still quite modest and not anywhere as ambitious as I'd like. However, more proposals are being considered and more libraries will appear either as part of the C++0x standard itself or as further committee technical reports.'"

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  1. What a name! by Caspian · · Score: 4, Interesting

    "C" was an unusual enough name for a language. Then "C++", which makes sense to you or I but would only mystify a non-geek. Now "C++0x"? How is that even pronounced? "See Plus Plus Zero Ecks"? Or maybe just "C...ocks"?

    Names like this serve to only further mystify computing and programming among the non-geek population.

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  2. Should've just done it in Python/Ruby anyways by psavo · · Score: 3, Interesting

    What I started to hate in C++/Java/C# is that there's no easy and standard-conforming way to express complex data 'inline'. Yeah, it's cleaner to make it XML and load it runtime, but there's no simple+quick way to do that either.

    Hell, you can't event put known non-uniform data in C++ vector without doing it one-by-one.

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  3. Slashdot interview? by nyri · · Score: 5, Interesting

    How about having a slashdot interview about C++0x with Strousrup? I think it would be a good forum to gain more insights about C++ and a fine possibility to allow a community (in this case the slashdot readers) to make and to vote on feature proposals.

  4. Lots of detractors here by Dante+Shamest · · Score: 4, Interesting

    But considering that lots of OSS projects like Firefox and KDE still use C++, not to mention commercial games like World of Warcraft, C++ probably does have some saving merits.

  5. Threads Cannot be Implemented as a Library by putko · · Score: 3, Interesting

    It is good for a language to have threads "built in". As mentioned in this paper, "Threads Cannot Be Implemented as a Library": http://www.hpl.hp.com/techreports/2004/HPL-2004-20 9.pdf

    if you do threads in a library, you run into problems with semantics or performance. Semantic problems == compiler breaks your multithreaded program. Performance problmes == compiler does naive translation of program, terrible performance.

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