Newsgroup: comp.lang.c++


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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