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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. Cruft removed? by kikito · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I really like that they added new stuff to the language but ...

    Have they *removed* anything at all from it? That's the only way I could get interested in that language again.

  2. But... by DeathToBill · · Score: 5, Insightful

    This is news for nerds. Stuff that matters. I thought /. abandoned this stuff ages ago...

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  3. Re:Nice but... by DrXym · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Templates are fine for little classes but they got so abused by STL that it was not uncommon to see trivial syntax errors turn into enormous cryptic compiler errors spanning multiple lines of nested templates and typedefs, half of whom you'd never heard of. After poring over this enormous error for minutes or longer you might eventually discover you missed a * off some declaration.

  4. Re:Still playing catch-up to C#. by Waffle+Iron · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The saddest part about this whole C++0x ordeal is that they're still just playing catch-up to C#.

    True. In particular, C++ is light years behind C# in patent FUD. And C++ hasn't even started work on requirements for a 100MB "managed environment" for users to install before running their apps. Nor have C++ developers chosen a monkey species after which to name its 2nd-class-citizen cross-platform implementation.

  5. Re:13 years? by siride · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I have to lol at the "constant win api changes" statement. The Win API bends over backwards for backwards compatibility. In Unix, especially Linux, outside of POSIX (which is fairly limited in functionality), backwards compatibility is almost a 4 letter word.