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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Member since:2005-06-29
Ahh, finally. Someone bringing an intelligent comment to the discussion.
I'm so tired of GC-jerks going around talking about the death of C/C++, and how inferior they are. They are little children running around shouting how much better their G.I. Joe is than your He-Man. Yeah, G.I. Joe's got guns and fighter jets, but He-Man has a magic sword, and battlecat, AND advanced technology.
Er, ummm, yeah - sorry for the tangent. But the point is, they have their application domain, where they make sense, where they're the best tool (so far) for the job.
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2006-01-27
When people talk of vastly superior languages, they are really talking about a shift in language application. People can do much more much quicker in Java/C#/Perl/Python/Ruby then in C/C++ (speaking from experience as a former Java/C/C++ programmer). Thus the application space for C/C++ shrinks, people move to more modern languages, and they begin to frame their discussions wrt those languages.