9/25/2013. Portable, available and used nearly everywhere?

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2 Portable, available and used nearly everywhere? 2

3 Portable, available and used nearly everywhere Efficient + flexible & expressive + power & control? Portable, available and used nearly everywhere Efficient + flexible & expressive + power & control Rich with features and abstractions, including imported from other languages? 3

4 Portable, available and used nearly everywhere Efficient + flexible & expressive + power & control Rich with features and abstractions, including imported from other languages Popular or dominant in many domains: communications, math, science, games, finance, commerce, navigation, interop, etc.? Portable, available and used nearly everywhere Efficient + flexible & expressive + power & control Rich with features and abstractions, including imported from other languages Popular or dominant in many domains: communications, math, science, games, finance, commerce, navigation, interop, etc. Complex, with irregularities and special cases? 4

5 Portable, available and used nearly everywhere Efficient + flexible & expressive + power & control Rich with features and abstractions, including imported from other languages Popular or dominant in many domains: communications, math, science, games, finance, commerce, navigation, interop, etc. Complex, with irregularities and special cases Harder to learn fluently? Portable, available and used nearly everywhere Efficient + flexible & expressive + power & control Rich with features and abstractions, including imported from other languages Popular or dominant in many domains: communications, math, science, games, finance, commerce, navigation, interop, etc. Complex, with irregularities and special cases Harder to learn fluently People have tried to fix/replace it with a simpler language? 5

6 ? Portable, available and used nearly everywhere Efficient + flexible & expressive + power & control Rich with features and abstractions, including imported from other languages Popular or dominant in many domains: communications, math, science, games, finance, commerce, navigation, interop, etc. Complex, with irregularities and special cases Harder to learn fluently People have tried to fix/replace it with a simpler language 6

7 Image credit: National Portrait Gallery, London Image credit: Ian Mladjov (via Wikipedia) 7

8 Image credit: Tataryn77 (via Wikipedia) 8

9 C++ English Portable, available and used nearly everywhere Efficient + flexible & expressive + power & control Rich with features and abstractions, including imported from other languages Popular or dominant in many domains: communications, math, science, games, finance, commerce, navigation, interop, etc. Complex, with irregularities and special cases Harder to learn fluently People have tried to fix/replace it with a simpler language essence myth 9

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13 14 th & 16 th Cent Chaucer, Shakespeare 19 th Cent Stevenson, Dickens 20 th & 21 st Cent Grisham, Collins 'Wepyng and waylyng, care and oother sorwe I knowe ynogh, on even and a-morwe, Quod the Marchant, 'and so doon oother mo That wedded been. The element itself, till seven years heat Shall not behold her face at ample view, But, like a cloistress, she will veilèd walk And water once a day her chamber round With eye-offending brine: all this to season A brother's dead love, 20 th Cent C, C with Classes It was the best of times, it was the worst of times; it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness; it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity; it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness; it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to heaven, we were all doing direct the other way in short, the period was so far like 200x C++98/03 I hear his instructions in my head. "Just clear out, put as much distance as you can between yourselves and the others, and find a source of water." But it's tempting, so tempting, when I see the bounty waiting there before me. And I know that if I don't get it, someone else will. That the Career Tributes who survive the bloodbath will divide up most of these life-sustaining spoils. 201x C++14/17 13

14 It s arcane/complex. Q: Which do you mean? 14 th & 16 th Cent Chaucer, Shakespeare 19 th Cent Stevenson, Dickens 20 th & 21 st Cent Grisham, Collins 'Wepyng and waylyng, care and oother sorwe I knowe ynogh, on even and a-morwe, Quod the Marchant, 'and so doon oother mo That wedded been. The element itself, till seven years heat Shall not behold her face at ample view, But, like a cloistress, she will veilèd walk And water once a day her chamber round With eye-offending brine: all this to season A brother's dead love, 20 th Cent C, C with Classes It was the best of times, it was the worst of times; it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness; it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity; it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness; it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to heaven, we were all doing direct the other way in short, the period was so far like 200x C++98/03 I hear his instructions in my head. "Just clear out, put as much distance as you can between yourselves and the others, and find a source of water." But it's tempting, so tempting, when I see the bounty waiting there before me. And I know that if I don't get it, someone else will. That the Career Tributes who survive the bloodbath will divide up most of these life-sustaining spoils. 201x C++14/17 Realize Realise (G) Advertise Advertise (L) Licence Licence Licence License Color Colour (F) Defense Defence Defensive Defensive Traveled Travelled 14

15 Q: Why did Esperanto never displace English? A: Solving a non-problem. 15

16 essence myth unity Observation One C++ 16

17 for(;;) ++x; first convergence 17

18 C++98: 5 years* (2003, EDG + Dinkumware) C++11: 2 years (2013, Clang) C++14: 0 years (2014, probably multiple) : Multiple C++14 complete implementations 18

19 Until 2013, the world had never enjoyed even one of the following, and we ve still never had all three: Until 2013, the world had never enjoyed even one of the following, and we ve still never had all three: Multiple consistent (never) 100% (first in 2013) same year (never) 19

20 Multiple consistent 100% same year Starting in 12-18mo, this could be the new normal Observation We are rapidly approaching 20