A previous post generated a flurry of email about C++. The basic question was, is C++ "technologically dead"? Is anybody working on extending the language? Well, the ISO Working Group 21 is still alive. You can browse the
C++ Standards Committee Papers and get a glimpse of what has been discussed in the past few years. Among them, the discussion on
Concepts for C++0x is quite interesting for those playing with metaprogramming. There are a few more papers around on the same subject, most of them by Jaakko Jarvi.
