[Colloquium] Talk by Michael Spertus on May 31st, 2007

[Margery Ishmael]

DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE - TALK

Date: Thursday, May 31st, 2007
Time: 5:30 p.m.
Place: Ryerson 251 (1100 E. 58th St.)

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MICHAEL SPERTUS
Distinguished Engineer
Symantec Research Labs

http://www.symantec.com/

Title:  Are you ready for C++0X?

Abstract:

The ANSI/ISO C++ standards committee is finishing the draft language  
for the first major language revision in 6 years. Expected (but not  
yet certain!) new features including Concepts, a type system for  
templates that, among other things, will make templates pleasant to  
use by eliminating the spectacularly poor error messages produced by  
today's template libraries. Programmer-controlled garbage collection  
that can be compatibly mixed with explicit memory management threads,  
concurrency and atomic operations: multi-core here we come library  
extensions including new smart pointers, regular expressions, and  
metaprogramming support much more: variadic templates, lambda,  
inheriting constructors, rvalue references...

I will describe some of the more exciting new features, along with  
the standards committee discussions and motivation. I'll also talk  
about when you can expect to see the standard, vendor- 
implementations, and what you can do in the meantime.


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Host:  Stuart A. Kurtz

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