Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 13th Aug 2007 17:57 UTC
"A good programming language is far more than a simple collection of features. My ideal is to provide a set of facilities that smoothly work together to support design and programming styles of a generality beyond my imagination. Here, I briefly outline rules of thumb (guidelines, principles) that are being applied in the design of C++0x. Then, I present the state of the standards process (we are aiming for C++09) and give examples of a few of the proposals such as concepts, generalized initialization, being considered in the ISO C++ standards committee. Since there are far more proposals than could be presented in an hour, I'll take questions." Dr. Bjarne Stroustrup is the original designer and implementer of the C++ Programming Language.
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2005-07-06
Not necessarily. Macros provide for a way to transform text into other text, what's bad is the usage of macros that some people do.
With macros you could do this, in C++:
synchronized(object)
{
// Atomic operations here
}
Just like in java, and it would be totally legal C++, provided the macro synchronized expanded to something like this:
#define synchronized(o) for((o).Lock(); (o).isLocked(); (o).unLock())
Where o would be an object of a class exposing the Lock/isLocked/unLock methods. If a class inherited from a, say, synchronizable class implementing those methods, you would be able to do
someclass::somemethod()
{
synchronized(*this)
{
// bla bla bla
}
}
Which would be the equivalent of a synchronized method in the Java language.
You can have range checking in C++, you just need to either implement it in a class of your own or use some of the already existing classes.
You can have managed memory handling in C++ as well.