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name: 'C++0x - An Overview'
short: 'Bjarne Stroustrup'
date: 'Tue Jul 17 2007 20:00:00 GMT-0400 (Eastern Daylight Time)'
online: false
location: 'AL 116'
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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. Here, I briefly outline rules of thumb (guidelines, principles) that are being applied in the design of C++0x. Then, I present the state of the standards process (we are aiming for C++09) and give examples of a few of the proposals such as concepts, generalized initialization, being considered in the ISO C++ standards committee. Since there are far more proposals than could be presented in an hour, I'll take questions.

