| Date: | Wed, 26 Apr 2006 17:16:03 +0300 |
| From: | Diomidis Spinellis <dds@aueb.gr> |
| Organization: | Athens University of Economics and Business |
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| Subject: | Re: new features in c++? |
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edware wrote: > I read a C++ book some years ago and learned the > basics of C++. And I've almost done no C++ programming > since then. Now I notice stuff like exceptions, templates > and the using namespace statement. Are these things > new additions, or have they been there all along? C++ has been gaining features over the years. The following table (excerpted from http://www.spinellis.gr/pubs/conf/1999-ESREL-SoftRel/html/chal.html) illustrates this fact by using the number of pages in Stroustrup's book "The C++ Programming Language" as a proxy for the size of the language: Edition Year Pages ------- ---- ----- 1st 1986 328 2nd 1991 669 3rd 1997 910 By far the most important addition to C++ has been the template mechanism, and the standard template library. I find programming in modern C++ with STL to be a totally different experience than programming in the 1986 version of the language. Nowadays I seldom use new and delete; STL containers handle most of my storage management needs. -- Diomidis Spinellis Code Quality: The Open Source Perspective (Addison-Wesley 2006) http://www.spinellis.gr/codequality
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