From: Fergus James HENDERSON (fjh@munta.cs.mu.OZ.AU)
Date: 07/08/93


From: fjh@munta.cs.mu.OZ.AU (Fergus James HENDERSON)
Subject: Re: ALPHA-pl11 available on nic: C++ support
Date: Thu, 8 Jul 1993 07:04:17 GMT

jcburt@gatsibm.larc.nasa.gov () writes:

>hahn@neurocog.lrdc.pitt.edu (Mark Hahn) writes:
>
>>Learn it now or learn it later: C++ is the standard.
>>
>Ummm...Mark... A touch of reality please... C++ is popular, there *is* a C++
>standard, but C++ is *not* *the* standard.

To correct a factual error: there is no C++ standard as yet.
The C++ standard is not expected to be completed until about 1996 or later
(very roughly).

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