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In article <3v4r9v$843@News1.mcs.net>,
Jim Fleming <jim.fleming@bytes.com> wrote:
>
>I have been watching this movie since 1984. Actually, more appropriately
>in the case of C++, we have been sitting in the movie theatre for over
>10 years...we are still waiting for the movie to start...
>
>There have been some previews of coming attractions...like STL and now
>the real DRAFT C++ Standard...as I see it, the feature length movie
>has not started...the C++ books are filled with very small trivial
>examples of tricks and techniques which are like "movie clips"...

	You are right Jim. But so what? Standardising a MAJOR
and already popular language isn't a trivial effort, especially when
a lot of research and development has gone into extending the language
design.

	As a consequence -- despite complaints about not
having a Standard -- many REAL and working compilers have been
upgraded to significantly higher levels of functionality: even if
no standard ever got created the C++ committee (and Bjarne Stroustrup
in particular) has been very successful at getting a better computer 
language into the hands of a lots of people.

	In fact, the Standard will follow hot on the heels of the latest
research efforts -- probably TOO close in fact.


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