Re: What's about the future of C++?
Victor Bazarov wrote:
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?
Volunteers, I would imagine. But the implementation would hopefully
only require adapters to the various libraries on the market.
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.
The impression I get is that C++ is still back in the early 80s with
console applications and is scared to progress in case they do so in a
way that is not perfect. With that in mind they wouldn't have given us
STL because that is not perfect - there are many things not so great
about STL but it's still better than not having it.
Platforms where GUI is not appropriate simply would not use the
library. In the same way that you could have platforms with no console
and thus not use console functions.
Those who have implemented GUI will not be out of work - as even
standard GUI will still need implementations (just like Roguewave were
not out of work when STL came along). And as I said earlier, the
current libraries could probably be used to implement the standard
interfaces anyway.