Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!usenet.pasdenom.info!news.albasani.net!news.swapon.de!news.glorb.com!postnews.google.com!news2.google.com!Xl.tags.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!news.giganews.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2011 03:00:01 -0500 Return-Path: Sender: lang-cpp-request@vandevoorde.com Approved: musiphil@bawi.org Message-ID: <2011060911283666605-pete@versatilecodingcom> Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++.moderated From: Pete Becker Subject: Re: Latest draft of C++ 11 Organization: Roundhouse Consulting, Ltd. Organization: Roundhouse Consulting, Ltd. References: <4DF09167.16F74C57@web.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1; format=flowed X-Original-Date: Thu, 9 Jun 2011 11:28:36 -1000 X-Submission-Address: lang-c++-submit@vandevoorde.com To: undisclosed-recipients:; Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2011 02:50:13 CST Lines: 29 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com X-Trace: sv3-YM9SsTWP1NBXmdA13j/2xZfWKC9rfiutNk/SeKOga4k4+ibKKmvfBEOGdK5Fyt8W7rQlJJ6pqLRSMVz!UAjk0pFr0NbenyOzLPNU6WH8MuRXjtOmbyH4Q8jpPWEzZJFF2gclAvupZEFEkRp3/gW8udQhpQ== X-Complaints-To: abuse@giganews.com X-DMCA-Notifications: http://www.giganews.com/info/dmca.html X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 X-Original-Bytes: 2351 Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.c++.moderated:1437 On 2011-06-09 05:49:35 -1000, Alexander Terekhov said: > John G Harris wrote: > [...] >> Or you could put the language under the control of a large company >> willing to pay the costs. But what influence do you have over the next >> issue of Java and C#? > > Java aside, C# is Standard ECMA-334: > > http://www.ecma-international.org/publications/standards/Ecma-334.htm > > and it is available free of charge. Last time I looked, it would have cost me $15,000 per year to participate in ECMA. For ISO, through INCITS, the fee is $1200. It's very generous of you to suggest that I pay over ten times as much as I currently do so that you can get a free copy of the standard. -- Pete Roundhouse Consulting, Ltd. (www.versatilecoding.com) Author of "The Standard C++ Library Extensions: a Tutorial and Reference (www.petebecker.com/tr1book) [ See http://www.gotw.ca/resources/clcm.htm for info about ] [ comp.lang.c++.moderated. First time posters: Do this! ]