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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I think it is kind of missing the point. Template meta-programming does not bring much: it gives you speed and memory savings, at the cost of totally unreadable and uncomprehensible code. The problem of meta-programming is that it is a really bad tool at what it is used for (parsing mathematical operations). I agree that dealing with complex linear algebra kind of things wo using a lot of memory is still an unsolved problem, but I think using a much higher level to parse mathematical expressions is a much better way to solve the problem (e.g. you would have pseudo-code mathematics parsed by something like lisp).
For example, fftw, the reference open source fft library, although implemented in C, is actually generated by a specialized ocaml generator (the meat of fftw is in the ocaml code). This is certainly a more elegant, more powerful approach than C++ meta programming, which is really just an hack with an awful syntax.