Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 30th Oct 2008 12:53 UTC, submitted by CPPfanboy
The proposed new standard for the C++ programming language, C++0x, has reached feature completeness. "This is 'it', feature-complete C++0x, including the major feature of 'concepts' which had its own extensive set of papers for language and library extensions (if you get the impression that concepts is a big feature, well, it is indeed easily the biggest addition we made in C++0x)."
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Well the doc is going to be a long read but right away I can see the Threads section is not going to excite me one iota. If I want to program with concurrency across 4 or a 100 processors, this ain't gonna do it. Nor does the .net or Java world do it either.
I think the real problem with C++ is that it is now an over dressed dinasour pretending that not much has changed in processors since C was originally developed for the PDP family. With 4 or hundreds of cores on a chip (not from Intel yet), and with the huge unpredictability of memory opcodes it is losing any relevance.
I have in mind a hybrid language that keeps close to minimalist C/C++ roots but borrows a concurency model from hardware languages like Verilog, but that means having a runtime scheduler or event wheel in there too.
The emperor isn't naked, he is wearing all of his wardrobe at once. I am also reminded of that Algol68 monster that killed of Algol60 but led to the more manageable Algol W or Pascal.