| Date: | Wed, 26 Apr 2006 20:30:05 +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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Andrew Koenig wrote: > "Diomidis Spinellis" <dds@aueb.gr> wrote in message > news:e2nvb2$46s$1@volcano1.grnet.gr... > >> 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 > > This claim is not quite fair. It would be more accurate to say that the > number of pages in the book is a proxy for the size of the language plus the > size of the standard library, as the library accounts for most of the growth > between the second and third editions (and some of the growth betwen the > first and second). True. I used the term language in a loose sense to mean the language and the standard library, because this is how most programmers use modern C++. I stand corrected.
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