On 26 January 2012 00:02, Brad Anderson <e...@gnuk.net> wrote: > On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 2:38 PM, Manu <turkey...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> On 25 January 2012 23:33, Trass3r <u...@known.com> wrote: >> >>> This is fairly interesting. MS have extended their C++ compiler >>>> significantly for Windows8 with a bunch of non-standard stuff. >>>> >>> >>> Yeah, while refusing to implement most of C++11. >>> >> >> Good! The C++11 committee should be shot. They've got it completely >> wrong, and MS have it right for my money! :) >> I don't want MORE STL, I want less :) >> > > Herb Sutter (the man speaking in your video) is chairman of the C++ > standards committee so it's kind of amusing that the stuff you praise and > the stuff you say is wrong are both led by the same man. Also, he and > Andrei wrote a book together (C++ Coding Standards) so the name drop isn't > entirely unexpected. They do the C++ and Beyond conference together (with > Scott Meyers). A large portion of the questions from the attendees I saw > in the Channel 9 videos were about D. >
Haha really? Amazing, but he works for Microsoft then I guess? So why is he fixing C++ for MS, but won't fix the C++ standard its self? std::function for instance, why add that if he turns around and adds a proper keyword for MS? It's kind of sad to see Microsoft doing so much work in interesting areas > with C++ that I won't get to use because it's proprietary (AMP, for > instance). > /agree ... but maybe enough people might demand some of those features in GCC, and it could bleeds across...