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Charles wrote:Sinofsky isn't over there [Office division] anymore, so it should be safe.
Nothing, really. Just a smart (I need to watch my language) comment...CMinh wrote: Charles wrote: Sinofsky isn't over there [Office division] anymore, so it should be safe.Now, what did you mean by that?
I really don't like the "shiny objects" analogy. Try asking IBM how many of those conversions from mainframes to Microsoft software were "green fields." Now that Microsoft is the landscape, not IBM, suddenly those "green fields" are "brown fields?"
The disconnect here is why those libraries that are only available to C++ programmers are not available to .NET programmers. Maybe you should have made them available to .NET programmers? Not only are they not available, but there is no publicly available roadmap for when that might happen, if ever.
I loved the IntelliSense discussion!
Hello CPrest
Please look at Herb's more recent blog on GC and C++0x:
https://herbsutter.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!2D4327CC297151BB!330.entry
Thanks
Damien
VC++
Damien Watkins wrote:Hello CPrest
Please look at Herb's more recent blog on GC and C++0x: http://herbsutter.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!2D4327CC297151BB!330.entry" href="https://herbsutter.spaces.live.com/blog/cns%212D4327CC297151BB%21330.entry"> http://herbsutter.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!2D4327CC297151BB!330.entry
Thanks
Damien
VC++
[Troll nonsense removed]
alecont wrote:Hi CPrest,
You don't always need a garbage collector to get a simple memory resource management
For example, if you extensively use smart pointers like tr1::shared_ptr, you can safely manage memory with familiar C++ concepts (like for example determistic destruction).
With tr1::shared_ptr, you call new() once and you don't need to worry about calling delete to release the memory. The smart pointer will take care of releasing the memory when the reference count goes to 0.
tr1::shared_ptr is part of the TR1 addition to the Standard C++ Libraries. TR1 will be released on top of VC++ 2008 very soon. Check out vcblog for more info on this!
HTH, ale.
ZippyV wrote:Charles, did you forget to white balance your camera? Everyone is wearing a pink shirt.