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From: bs@alice.att.com (Bjarne Stroustrup)
Newsgroups: comp.std.c++
Subject: Re: List of ANSI libraries
Summary: extensions
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Date: 17 Feb 94 04:28:51 GMT
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chris.smith@ftl.atl.ga.us (Chris Smith @ Faster-Than-Light (FTL), Atlanta Georgia USA) writes

 > In article <27705@alice.att.com>, bs@alice.att.com (Bjarne Stroustrup) writes:
 > PJ>|>
 > PJ>|> In general, I encourage people to look to libraries rather than language
 > PJ>|> extensions. More often than not there seem to be a choice.
 > PJ>|>
 > PJ>|>      - Bjarne
 > 
 > Exactly!  Could we (we're not worthy, we're not worthy:-) poor
 > programmers, who just want to use the C++ language as it is
 > described in the ARM, count on you to use your influence with the
 > committee to persuade them to quit persuing every little language
 > extension proposal that comes up, long enough so that we may see
 > a standard in our lifetime?

The committee never ``persued every little language extension proposal.''
We had to react to proposals made, but few were accepted. I don't have
a rigorous measure of complexity, but I'm sure that the complexity of the
sum of all extensions beyond templates and exceptions is only about the
same as the complexity of either templates or exceptions.

I expect to see a draft standard this fall. I expect the standard with
its Ts crossed and Is dotted by ANSI and ISO to look very much like
that draft.

 ...

 > C++ isn't broken, and doesn't need to be fixed.

Thanks

	- Bjarne