Interview with Stanley Lippman, Mr. Visual C++ 20
Bender writes "Stanley Lippman, who is best known for his work on the C++ language, recently became the head honcho for Microsoft's Visual C++ product. This is a link to a recent interview in which he discusses standards conformance and Microsoft's policy towards C99."
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Second, I develop in VC++ but I don't care if it is standard compliant or not. It is a windows only development solution and will probably remain so. There several others compilers which would let me write STL or Loki compliant code if need be. The only part I hate is some of the junk code generated by the wizards.
Third, I disagree with Microsoft that when they export on template classes is obscure - not that I need/use it. Its a hard to implement feature considering the number of compilers which have added this feature.