On 26 January 2012 00:48, Paulo Pinto <pj...@progtools.org> wrote: > Am 25.01.2012 23:35, schrieb Manu: > >> On 26 January 2012 00:02, Brad Anderson <e...@gnuk.net >> >> <mailto:e...@gnuk.net>> wrote: >> >> On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 2:38 PM, Manu <turkey...@gmail.com >> <mailto:turkey...@gmail.com>> wrote: >> >> On 25 January 2012 23:33, Trass3r <u...@known.com >> <mailto: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? >> > > Because he is just one person in the standards process. That is how > standards work. > > Each person (or company) just gets one vote. >
Yeah, well the chairman should have veto rights, and then do it right, like they did at MS :P