Re: What's about the future of C++?

From:

"Victor Bazarov" <v.Abazarov@comAcast.net>

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comp.lang.c++

Date:

Thu, 1 Jun 2006 09:54:31 -0400

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<e5mrin$46e$1@news.datemas.de>

Earl Purple wrote:

kwikius wrote:

Which major parts of GUI technology are moving so fast? Is the
current point and click widget on desktop metaphor going to be
redundant. Will we all be wearing VR suits ? Au contraire the 2D
desktop widget metaphor seems to be well established across
Operating systems large and small. In fact it is now surprisingly
easy to move between operating systems with a GUI frontend, because
they all work so similarly, as has been the case for quite a few
years.

I agree that a standard GUI would not need to cover all of GUI. I
would like a standard GUI interface. It would then be up to the
implementers how they implement it for whichever platform.

I just wonder how long do you think it would take the Committee to
agree on a single specification, given that now there are so many
different ones on the market... And who's going to write it? By
the time the specification is agreed upon and written up, the GUI
development (with new bells and whistles like handwriting recognition
and other tricks introduced annually) will have left the spec so far
in the past that implementing the Standard set will be so not enough
to satisfy anybody, that nobody would care... Just the impression I
get, anyway.

V
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