Why is not more FreeBSD software written in C++?

[Don Dugger]

Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote:

>David Cuthbert <dacut at kanga.org> writes:
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>>Dag-Erling Smørgrav <des at des.no> writes:
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>>>Don Dugger <dugger at hotlz.com> writes:
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>>>>C++ and C are languages that are defined by ANSI
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>>>No they're not.  It may surprise you to learn that there is a whole
>>>world outside the USA which does not care one whit about ANSI.
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>>This would be news to those involved in the standardization process,
>>who went through great pains to ensure that ISO C90 was the same as
>>ANSI C89, ANSI C++98 was the same as ISO C++98, and ANSI C2000 was
>>the same as ISO C99...
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>Whatever you may think, C and C++ are not defined by ANSI.  They're
>defined by ISO's JTC1/SC22, working groups 14 and 21, respectively.
>While it is very nice of ANSI to adopt the result of that work as
>national standards for the US, it is largely irrelevant for the
>remaining 6 billion people on the planet.
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>And please get a proper MUA, so I don't have to fix your quoting when
>replying.
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>DES
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Not that any of this really matter's, but this was not the way I 
remembered it happening
so I did a little looking. Bjarne Stroustrup says in his book "The C++ 
Programming Language"
Third Edition (I think he had something do with c++) on page 11 that the 
ISO standard was taken
from the ANSI standard and "From 1990, these joint C++ standards 
committees have been the main
forum for the evolution of C++ and the refinement of its of its 
definition." I also noticed that the
g++ compiler has a "-ansi" option. BTW where's Bjarne from? In the book 
he mentions Murray Hill,
New Jersey but with that name I think he from somewhere else.
And let me say this is not important other I used the term ANSI and 
maybe I should have just said
standards committee which was my point.

Don 8)