A (german) C++ Issue

published at 07.11.2012 15:06 by Jens Weller
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Michael Wong has arrived today, and while I was at the airport welcoming him from Canada, we had a little talk. There is some cool news about OpenMP and the coming C++ Standards, but there is also an Issue, which we were not to happy to talk about. While the C++ Meeting in Portland was ongoing, I got into contacts with Peter Gottschling, one of the members of the german delegation for C++ Standardisation.

And to cut the long story a bit short: That is exactly the topic I'd like to talk about. Because, with next year, this delegation does not exist anymore. Due to Budget cuts, the DIN (german institue for Standardisation/Norming), will not continue to be part of the Standardisation of ISO Programminglanguages. While some of those languages are quite old like Cobol and Ada, also C and Lisp, and C++ are affected by this. If you are german, please help us in reverting this descision, if you are not german, this Issue also affects you. The DIN is well known, and once they choose to not take place in standardisation, some other countries might follow.

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