Biggest Changes In C++11 (and Why You Should Care)

Esther Schindler writes "It's been 13 years since the first iteration of the C++ language. Danny Kalev, a former member of the C++ standards committee, explains how the programming language has been improved and how it can help you write better code."

Comments

13 years?

[Meneth]

C++ has been around for at least 28 years. From Wikipedia: "It was renamed C++ in 1983."

The article is probably referring to the first finished C++ ISO standard, 14882:1998. Hardly the "first iteration" of the language.

Re:13 years?

[crow_t_robot]

After years of development, the C++ programming language standard was ratified in 1998 as ISO/IEC 14882:1998

C++ didn't exist as a standardized language till 13 years ago. It was in development before then.

Re:13 years?

[Lord Lode]

The previous C++ standard, C++98, is 13 years old, as the name implies.

Re:Nice but...

[mmcuh]

GCC, which is probably the most used C++ compiler, supports the new for-syntax since 4.6, deleted member functions since 4.4, and explicit virtual overrides in the 4.7 development series.

See wikipedia

[Anonymous Coward]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C%2B%2B0x#Features_to_be_removed_or_deprecated

Re:Alternative syntax

[TheRaven64]

Would it be that painful to add a lambda keyword?

Yes, actually. Adding keywords to a language is problematic, because lots of existing code will use them as identifier names. If you add a lambda keyword then you break any existing code that contains a variable, function, or type called lambda. C99 had some ugly hacks to get around this for bool: the language adds a __bool type, and the stdbool.h type adds macros that define bool, true, and false in terms of __bool.