From -886128129451306177 X-Google-Thread: f78e5,6294651cbc4b105c X-Google-Attributes: gidf78e5,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news4.google.com!news.glorb.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!local01.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.speakeasy.net!news.speakeasy.net.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2005 00:40:11 -0500 Return-Path: X-Authentication-Warning: mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU: fjh set sender to devnull@stump.algebra.com using -f X-Robomod: STUMP, ichudov@algebra.com (Igor Chudov) Delivered-To: std-c++@ucar.edu From: "Jerry Coffin" Newsgroups: comp.std.c++ Subject: Re: C++ standard life cycle Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <1124839739.240052.195620@g44g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> References: <430ae756$0$65783$dbd4f001@news.wanadoo.nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com User-Agent: G2/0.2 Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: g44g2000cwa.googlegroups.com; posting-host=165.236.235.120; posting-account=mZiOqwwAAAC5YZsJDHJLeReHGPXV5ENp X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ucar.edu X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at cs.mu.OZ.AU Approved: Fergus Henderson , moderator of comp.std.c++ X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at cs.mu.OZ.AU Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2005 00:34:46 CST Lines: 35 NNTP-Posting-Host: 65.182.171.162 X-Trace: sv3-HXr5HaTk4yHTDoUCpCjLFerTnrzHZgq7d2SI0zzGT6ckQTUCXX2SlNDS0JGrANntLgqsr4o711O4uGO!CrdDoHHEUJC+MfAO9hvjMEL5P3XvJwvXu41K/eLmpOEa0kvD5o6Wz2gGWT9attrlH05l6poZaoJ2!cN/ac9AQoQlOsuZm3rmGaNpREf7j7FV9DCzP4kxcTRM= X-Complaints-To: abuse@speakeasy.net X-DMCA-Complaints-To: abuse@speakeasy.net X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.32 Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.std.c++:1913 Jaap Versteegh wrote: > Why would no work on the standard mean an end of life cycle ? Because the programming environment changes enough, quickly enough, that almost anything that doesn't adapt quickly becomes obsolete. Granted, some areas change more quickly than others, but even Fortran (arguably in the most stable area there is) has changed substantially over the years. > Pascal and C are still in active use and therefore their standard is. As standardized, Pascal has never really been actively used -- I'm only aware of one Pascal compiler that ever really even tried to implement a standard, and TTBOMK, it never saw much use. A conforming implementation of Pascal would be required to reject nearly everything most people currently write as Pascal. > I'd rather say that these languages are apparently mature. While C has certainly matured, it's also stagnated to an extent -- or at least the area in which it's the language of choice has narrowed considerably over time. -- Later, Jerry. The universe is a figment of its own imagination. --- [ comp.std.c++ is moderated. To submit articles, try just posting with ] [ your news-reader. If that fails, use mailto:std-c++@ncar.ucar.edu ] [ --- Please see the FAQ before posting. --- ] [ FAQ: http://www.jamesd.demon.co.uk/csc/faq.html ]