21 Apr 2010 redi   » (Master)

The C++ FCD (final committee draft) has been published for review by national bodies and member organisations. Once ballot comments have been received and dealt with there will be an FDIS (final draft international standard) and then a new standard. We're getting there, slowly.

GCC 4.5 has been released, and though certainly not a complete implementation, GCC 4.5 is pretty close to the FCD. As with GCC 4.4 last year, the new release happened while I was at the ACCU conference, where my Abusive C++ talk went very well. As I enjoyed it so much I'm keen to speak again next year, if I can think of a good topic.

I recently noticed that /usr/share/dict/words on Fedora is chock-full of gibberish, making it useless for most of the useless things I used to use it for (e.g. finding palindromes and words with 5 consecutive consonsants.) Even on RHEL it's got crap like 'dubitative'

apenwarr makes some very good points:

Java and Flash are the opposite of awesomeness. Thus, Apple rejects them outright.
As Homer wisely said, it's funny because it's true.
Microsoft won on the desktop by being developer-friendly and Apple won in mobile by being developer-hostile. Developers never had anything to do with it.
Also true. I think MS only told devs that devs were important, noone else cared. I don't see those unbearable Windows 7 adverts ("I told them to make it blow fewer donkeys, now it blows fewer donkeys") mentioning developers.

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