Re: Interview with Mr Stroustrup

On 2011-01-13, Chris H <chris@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Why? It is not needed for the majority

And all the world's a VAX.

and those that do need it seem to
have coped very well with multi threading and multiple cores for a long
while so far.

That's a major portability barrier, though, for code which wants to do that.
If the language had a decent spec for it, we wouldn't have that problem.

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