As C++ programmers, we already feel the impact of the work of the ANSI/ISO C++ standards committee.
Yet the ink is hardly dry on the first official draft of the standard. Already, we can use language features
only hinted at in the ARM and The C++ Programming Language, [Stroustrup,
1991], compilers are beginning to show improved compatibility, implementations of the new standard library are appearing, and the recent relative stability of the language definition is allowing extra effort to be spent on implementation quality and tools. This is only the beginning.
We can now with some confidence imagine the post-standard C++ world. To me, it looks good and
exciting. I am confident that it will give me something I have been working towards for about sixteen
years: a language in which I can express my ideas directly; a language suitable for building large, demanding,
efficient, real-world systems; a language supported by a great standard library and effective tools. I am
confident because most of the parts of the puzzle are already commercially available and tested in real use.
The standard will help us to make all of those parts available to hundreds of thousands or maybe even millions
of programmers. Conversely, those programmers provide the community necessary to support further
advances in quality, programming and design techniques, tools, libraries, and environments. What been
achieved using C++ so far have exeeded my wildest dreams and we must realistically expect that the best is
yet to come.
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