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  • Interview with Bjarne Stroustrup

    From Nightfox to All on Sun Dec 22 12:39:41 2013
    This is an interesting interview with Bjarne Stroustrup, the creator of C++: http://bigthink.com/users/bjarnestroustrup

    Nightfox
  • From Mercyful Fate to Nightfox on Tue Mar 4 08:54:08 2014
    Re: Interview with Bjarne Stroustrup
    By: Nightfox to All on Sun Dec 22 2013 13:39:41

    This is an interesting interview with Bjarne Stroustrup, the creator of C++: http://bigthink.com/users/bjarnestroustrup

    Some good stuff. I really like the new c++x0 and 11 features. I've slowly been using and incorperating new techniques into the coding. The greatest challenge for c++ is the move to UTF-8 and globalization. Having a program full for Char* arrays makes it very diffcult start accepting UTF-8 input. I think this area of the language is really lacking even with new string types of u8, alot of work has to be done so that functions and string operatation handl;e the multi-byte characters processing properly.
  • From Nightfox to Mercyful Fate on Tue Mar 4 20:39:20 2014
    Re: Interview with Bjarne Stroustrup
    By: Mercyful Fate to Nightfox on Tue Mar 04 2014 09:54:08

    This is an interesting interview with Bjarne Stroustrup, the creator
    of C++: http://bigthink.com/users/bjarnestroustrup

    Some good stuff. I really like the new c++x0 and 11 features. I've slowly been using and incorperating new techniques into the coding. The

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

    greatest challenge for c++ is the move to UTF-8 and globalization. Having a program full for Char* arrays makes it very diffcult start accepting UTF-8 input. I think this area of the language is really lacking even with new string types of u8, alot of work has to be done so that functions and string operatation handl;e the multi-byte characters processing properly.

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

    Nightfox
  • From Mercyful Fate to Nightfox on Fri Mar 7 10:12:24 2014
    Re: Interview with Bjarne Stroustrup
    By: Nightfox to Mercyful Fate on Tue Mar 04 2014 21:39:20

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

    C++ has had wstring and wchar_t for quite a while.. I'd think those would 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. :)