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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There have been a million similar discussions on the net C vs C++ vs Java, etc. Programming language is a tool and you need better tools to create more complex software. Programmers have been using the same old tools for decades and the quality of software they create is abysmal. New languages/methodologies need to reflect the fact that the future systems need to support fine grained multithreading if they are to effectively utilise multicore CPUs with UMA or NUMA hardware configurations. Parallel programming is a difficult challenge and the current programming languages are not suited for such tasks.
"Next generation C++" sounds like a farce to me. I think in order to get the optimal performance and rigidity, the hardware, system software and development tools, need to be designed as a unity, with references to one another. Creating a programming language in near vacuum will not achieve the flexibility required for high-performance, reliable and complex software.