Linked by Amjith Ramanujam on Wed 20th Aug 2008 19:37 UTC
DevX interviewed Bjarne Stroustrup about C++0x, the new C++ standard that is due in 2009. Bjarne Stroustrup has classified the new features into three categories Concurrency, Libraries and Language. The changes introduced in the Concurrency makes C++ more standardized and easy to use on multi-core processors. It is good to see that some of the commonly used libraries are becoming standard (eg: unordered_maps and regex).
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Precision is not a language feature, it's a library feature. Don't know if by precision you mean number of significant digits or numerical stability of algorithms, but in both cases this should go into libraries. The language itself should only provide the bare minimum i.e. the IEEE754 floating-point types supported by CPUs.
Fortran indeed used to have by far the best math libraries, but, mark my words! We're a new generation of C++ math software coming to challenge that situation, and template metaprogramming will be a huge strength here.