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Re: Latest draft of C++ 11 Organization: Roundhouse Consulting, Ltd.

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* Brendan Miller:

> I certainly hope that they make it available for a reasonable
> fee. Some ISO standards cost $30, and some cost $300. If it ends up
> in the $300 category... then very few programmers will buy it.

ISO standards are priced roughly based on page count.  This means that
the new standard will probably cost more than 500 USD if you buy it
from ISO.

Some national standardization organizations publish less expensive
editions of the same text, but it's not the ISO standard.  There is a
print version from Wiley of the British standard, and ANSI published
comparatively cheap PDFs of the American standard.  Most national
standardization organizations charge fees in excess of the ISO fees,
though.  There is also no guarantee that anyone will offer the
standard add reduced prices.  (AFAIK, nothing comparable to the Wiley
book was published for the original C++ standard.)

> Right now, there isn't any good free online reference documentation
> for the C++ standard. The SGI docs are the best, but they only
> partially cover the standard library. There's no iostreams
> documentation for instance. They also don't cover any of the new
> additions in C++0x.

Microsoft publishes extensive reference documentation, but it only
reflects C++ as far as it is implemented in their toolchain.

> I think there's an expectation among the standards committee that
> programmers will just buy a bunch of C++ books. However, today
> that's unrealistic.

If you need the standard (because you want to settle a dispute between
you and an implementation, for instance), some random C++ book just
won't do.

I think the important development is not so much the medium, but
increased interest in truly cross-platform development (across
operating systems, compiler versions and compiler vendors), so
fiddling with the code until it's accepted by your local compiler
isn't feasilble anymore for many of us.


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  Re: Latest draft of C++ 11  Anthony Williams <anthony.ajw@gmail.com> - 2011-06-06 12:46 -0600
  Re: Latest draft of C++ 11 Organization: Roundhouse Consulting, Ltd.  Pete Becker <pete@versatilecoding.com> - 2011-06-06 12:44 -0600
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            Re: Latest draft of C++ 11 Organization: Roundhouse Consulting, Ltd.  Elias Salomão Helou Neto <eshneto@gmail.com> - 2011-06-08 17:28 -0600
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            Re: Latest draft of C++ 11 Organization: Roundhouse Consulting, Ltd.  Francis Glassborow <francis.glassborow@btinternet.com> - 2011-06-08 17:31 -0600
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              Re: Latest draft of C++ 11 Organization: Roundhouse Consulting, Ltd.  Pete Becker <pete@versatilecoding.com> - 2011-06-10 02:50 -0600
                Re: Latest draft of C++ 11 Organization: Roundhouse Consulting,  Ltd.  Alexander Terekhov <terekhov@web.de> - 2011-06-10 09:22 -0600
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    Re: Latest draft of C++ 11  Helmut Jarausch <jarausch@igpm.rwth-aachen.de> - 2011-06-08 02:06 -0600
      Re: Latest draft of C++ 11  "Bo Persson" <bop@gmb.dk> - 2011-06-08 17:29 -0600
      Re: Latest draft of C++ 11  Alexander Terekhov <terekhov@web.de> - 2011-06-08 17:24 -0600
        Re: Latest draft of C++ 11  Francis Glassborow <francis.glassborow@btinternet.com> - 2011-06-09 06:57 -0600
          Re: Latest draft of C++ 11 Alexander Terekhov <terekhov@web.de> - 2011-06-09 15:53 -0600
  Re: Latest draft of C++ 11  Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de> - 2011-06-06 12:45 -0600
  Re: Latest draft of C++ 11  Francis Glassborow <francis.glassborow@btinternet.com> - 2011-06-06 12:48 -0600
  Re: Latest draft of C++ 11  Daniel Krügler <daniel.kruegler@googlemail.com> - 2011-06-06 12:48 -0600
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