Bjarne Stroustrup Previews C++0x

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.'"

Comments

Downhill at a fast rate

[mustafap]

I still think C++ was invented as a joke. I mean, fancy allowing standard operators to be overloaded. And reference variables? I now have to carefully examine very function prototype when I need to know if a function call might have side effects.

And now garbage collection? That just a feature to fix poorly written code.

When I found the C language, I stopped looking. Ah well.