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

Posted by timothy on from the it-serves-as-its-own-emoticon dept.

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."

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  1. 13 years? by Meneth · · Score: 4, Informative
    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.

  2. Re:Nice but... by mmcuh · · Score: 5, Informative

    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.