Lack of portability/standardization in C++

[Ted Dennison<dennison@telepath.com>]

This issue has come up here a fair bit recently, mostling having to do with the
validity of the claims on Mozilla C++ Portability Guide page (
http://www.mozilla.org/hacking/portable-cpp.html ).

There's a really good article up on kuro5hin today about this exact issue. The
direct link is http://www.kuro5hin.org/?op=displaystory;sid=2001/4/25/22959/3540
 Since its dated last week, I doubt anyone is going to seriously try to claim
that *this* is out of date. :-)

My favorite part is:
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One begins to wonder if it's been almost four years since the draft discussions
and yet no single compiler implements the entire standard, then when will the
additions currently being proposed finally make it into the standard and then
into the real world in a way that is compatible across platforms and compilers?
Two years? Four? Six maybe? 
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