5 Aug
2006
5 Aug
'06
1:17 a.m.
G'day all.
Quoting Udo Stenzel
Uh, this one's wrong. Does C++ of 15 years ago support today's programs?
C++ of _today_ doesn't support today's programs in some cases. Just ask the Boost developers about the various workarounds they still have to deal with.
No. C++ of 10 years ago probably does, but the compiler will crash.
Even compiling a fully conforming ISO C++ standard library generally requires a compiler from at most three years ago. Generally speaking, any C++ application that was written 10 years ago and hasn't been rewritten avoids large parts of the standard library precisely because it was so poorly supported, and what was supported was poorly implemented. (That's why Qt looks like it does.) Cheers, Andrew Bromage