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Table-pounding Evangelism of Visual C++

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Today has been a long day. The language design team is
getting ready to release a draft of the language specification the the ECMA
technical group. The TG5 meetings for ECMA start in just under a month. It’s
very exciting, and the countdown is leading to a lot of last minute work. Look
forward to seeing the early draft of the language specification on the Visual
C++ dev center soon.

Anyways, someone forwarded a link around to an

InfoWorld article talking about Visual C++. His takeaways from my
presentation resonated with a number of other people I met at PDC. There is so
much to look forward to from Whidbey, I’m just glad that the Visual C++ message
is memorable enough weeks after PDC. We really do love smart developers, and
we’re working hard to support them.

For tomorrow, I am working on a history and rationale for
the design of handles in the language. A handle is a new declarator we are
adding, the caret (^), which implies garbage collection. It is the reason the
slogan on the bright yellow shirt passed out at the PDC is:

                    Visual
      Can you handle ^ C++?

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  • Anonymous
    December 24, 2003
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  • Anonymous
    April 18, 2004
    Microsoft are moving quickly towards .NET (WinFx in Longhorn is fully based on managed APIs, after all), and as such I think it's important that there is a viable migration path for C++ applications. It needs to be possible to do just about anything in C++ -- cleanly -- that can be done in C#. While I am a big advocate of standards and generally hate custom "extensions, "I think that this is one of the cases where it might be not only acceptable but necessary.

    Thanks for your very interesting articles, Brandon!