Re: Future of C++

From:

ram@zedat.fu-berlin.de (Stefan Ram)

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comp.lang.c++.moderated

Date:

Wed, 6 Aug 2008 16:39:12 CST

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JoshuaMaurice@gmail.com writes:

Firstly, Java is actually platform independent.

   Some say, it /is/ a platform.

   Also, it is platform independent only if the set
   of platforms is being restricted to those platforms
   that support the required version and edition of Java.

   This includes Linux and Windows, but already the
   Macintosh is not completely supported anymore.

they do Java. If you advertise yourself as Java X, and you're
not Java X, they'll sue you, like they did to

   The community also could agree on some test suite
   (developed as free software). Compilers then either
   pass or not pass the suite. (If there is such thing
   as a ?C++ community?.)

   For example, Perl 5.10.0 has 78883 core tests and
   109427 module tests (numbers from 2007).

   So, the old standard from 1998 so far has 0 implementations.
   Now, when C++0x adds even more features, will it have even
   less implementations?

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