Re: Java Risks (Was: Ada News Brief - 96-05-24

[bs@research.att.com (Bjarne Stroustrup <9758-26353> 0112760)]

wbrooks@lwaxana.acs.calpoly.edu (Bill Brooks) writes

 > In article <31B2B06A.43FE@lmtas.lmco.com>,
 > Ken Garlington  <garlingtonke@lmtas.lmco.com> wrote:
 > >Brian N. Miller wrote:
 > >> 
 > >> 
 > >> A disbelieve that C++ is evolving awkwardly.  Is there a publication
 > >> which claims so?  Or is this 2-bit usenet opinion?  ;')
 > >
 > >See Plauger's comments in Embedded Systems Programming, for example.
 > >(I'm not sure why an opinion in a publication is necessarily better
 > >than one on the Internet, but nonetheless, there it is...)
 > >
 >  
 > I too tend to disbelieve claims that C++ is evolving awkwardly, but
 > anyone who hasn't seen the <em> reams</em> of material published on
 > this topic must be living under a rock! The number of articles on the
 > error-proness of C++ exception handling alone could supply all the
 > material for a graduate level seminar. 
 > 
 > Start out with: <quote>The Evolution of C++: Language Design in the
 > Marketplace of Ideas</quote>, 1993, edited by Jim Waldo, which traces
 > the history of C++ from USENIX conferences to today's most popular
 > OOPL.  Waldo concludes that the language at one point had a clear
 > design center, but that it doesn't now.

For a contrary view see

	Bjarne Stroustrup: The Design and Evolution of C++
	Addison Wesley ISBN 1-201-54330-3

by and large I think the committee has done an excellent job and that
ISO C++ will be a close approximation of what I hoped for.

	- Bjarne