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On Wednesday April 11, 2001, in San Jose, several members of
the C++ community met publicly to discuss for the first time
the future direction of the C++ standardization effort post-ISO standard. Panel,
with
Bjarne Stroustrup,
Matt Austern,
Scott Meyers,
Dan Saks,
Herb Sutter.
Bjarne Stroustrup's suggestions focus on additions to
the standard library: support for multi-threaded programming,
platform-independent systems abstractions
(handles, async i/o, memory maps...). Among the most intriguing suggestions: extended type information that can
be used to generate bindings to external systems such as SQL, COM etc...
NOTE: This was a preliminary, non-official meeting, and included the views only of those present.
The next official meeting of the C++ WG (WG21) will take place in late April 2001 in Copenhagen, Denmark.
See Also:
codebytes Interview with Bjarne Stroustrup (video).
Upcoming: interviews with Scott Meyer and Dan Saks. [2001-04-22] (01:27:00) RELEASE NOTE: Transcript covers Bjarne Stroustrup's presentation only. The presentation notes (PDF) are available for download here (thanks to Bjarne Stroustrup for making these available).
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