Subj : Interview with Bjarne Stroustrup
To   : Nightfox
From : Mercyful Fate
Date : Fri Mar 07 2014 10:12 am

  Re: Interview with Bjarne Stroustrup
  By: Nightfox to Mercyful Fate on Tue Mar 04 2014 21:39:20

 Ni> I've heard that they plan to release a new C++ standard every few years
 Ni> now.. Seems a bit crazy - Good that they're still putting new features in
 Ni> C++, but I think it would be hard to keep up with all the changes with C++
 Ni> moving that fast - both for developers and implementors of compilers and
 Ni> IDEs.

Ya, it's nice the new features. I don't always use all of them and the part
that is nice is that you don't have to if your not into it.  Some of like
lambda expression and other thigns are a very nice edition.  I like the Boost
libraries alot for their extra functionaly.  They make alot of things a bit
easier to deal with and quicker to impliment.

 Ni> C++ has had wstring and wchar_t for quite a while..  I'd think those would
 Ni> handle multiple languages that need multi-byte characters.

Thats true, however just using them doesn't give support, there are still alot
of hoops to encode and decode the string data in the desired language encoding
and it can be a headache when trying to support multiple lanauages much less
UTF-8.  :)

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