CS Colloquium
October 23, 2008
10:30 a.m., AKW 200

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Speaker: Bjarne Stroustrup, Texas A&M University
Title: C++0x: An Overview

Host: Paul Hudak

Abstract: The next ISO C++ standard, C++0x, has been voted out for public review. That means that the committee consider the standard feature complete and ready for nit picking. A good programming language is far more than a simple collection of features. My ideal is to provide a set of facilities that smoothly work together to support design and programming styles of a generality beyond my imagination in real-world programs. Here, I briefly outline the rules of thumb (guidelines, principles), with small examples, that are being applied in the design of C++0x. F inally, I briefly present two examples of new language features: concepts and generalized initialization. Since there are far more proposals than could be presented in an hour, I'll take questions.