Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sun 29th Jan 2006 16:06 UTC, submitted by Derek Jones
Microsoft's C++/CLI Language Specification is an ECMA Standard (ECMA-372) and they are trying to fast track this document to be an ISO standard. The problem is that the language specified is very different from C++ and so is likely to create a great deal of confusion. Details can be found in the UK objections [.pdf], which suggest that a name distinct from C++ be used for the proposed language.
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Nothing is wrong with creating a new language which the objection clearly points out, but because the names are too similar confusion will arise:
Quote: Documentation for Microsoft's Visual C++ product contains many code examples identified as "C++" --not "C++/CLI" or even "C++.Net" -- which will fail to compile in a Standard C++ environment."
So unless the name is changed to a less confusing one this may indeed be looked upon as selling an extended C++-language as 'C++'.