Date: Sun, 23 Apr 2006 00:16:13 +0200 From: des@des.no (Dag-Erling =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?=) To: Don Dugger <dugger@hotlz.com> Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Why is not more FreeBSD software written in C++? Message-ID: <86ejzpntn6.fsf@xps.des.no> In-Reply-To: <444A9DE6.4070203@hotlz.com> (Don Dugger's message of "Sat, 22 Apr 2006 14:19:34 -0700") References: <44490663.3040506@hotlz.com> <86d5f9pno8.fsf@xps.des.no> <444A652E.5010403@kanga.org> <864q0lplro.fsf@xps.des.no> <444A9DE6.4070203@hotlz.com>
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Don Dugger <dugger@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 --=20 Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav - des@des.no
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