Stroustrup's slides about c++11 and c++14

Paulo Pinto via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Sat Sep 13 14:33:53 PDT 2014


Am 13.09.2014 22:10, schrieb eles:
> This presentation:
>
> https://parasol.tamu.edu/people/bs/622-GP/C++14TAMU.pdf
>
> He criticizes C99 VLA (slide 24) as being "an abomination"


I agree with him.

C99 VLA are the typical open door to security exploits via the stack 
frame, that C brought upon the IT world.

To the point C11, which took security as one of the goals, has made VLA 
optional.

>
> But the surprise comes at the end (slide 57), where he also
> criticizes... the static if as being "a total abomination". Well, this
> is D, I told myself.

Well, Bjarne has his own proposal, concepts, so there is a bit of 
salesman speech here, I would say.

--
Paulo


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