MS extend C++ significantly for Windows8... and Andrei got name drop

Manu turkeyman at gmail.com
Wed Jan 25 14:53:26 PST 2012


On 26 January 2012 00:48, Paulo Pinto <pjmlp at progtools.org> wrote:

> Am 25.01.2012 23:35, schrieb Manu:
>
>> On 26 January 2012 00:02, Brad Anderson <eco at gnuk.net
>>
>> <mailto:eco at gnuk.net>> wrote:
>>
>>    On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 2:38 PM, Manu <turkeyman at gmail.com
>>    <mailto:turkeyman at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>
>>        On 25 January 2012 23:33, Trass3r <un at known.com
>>        <mailto:un at 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
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