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

Dag-Erling Smørgrav des at des.no
Sat Apr 22 22:16:20 UTC 2006


Don Dugger <dugger at hotlz.com> writes:
> 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."

Exactly.  C and C++ have been in ISO's hands since 1990, so for the
past 16 years, ANSI has had no involvement in their development other
than to rubberstamp what ISO produces.

> BTW where's Bjarne from? In the book he mentions Murray Hill, New
> Jersey but with that name I think he from somewhere else.

He is Danish.  Murray Hill, NJ is the location of AT&T Labs, where he
works.

DES
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