leech@cezanne.cs.unc.edu (Jonathan Leech) (11/14/90)
In article <39549@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU>, jbuck@galileo.berkeley.edu (Joe Buck) writes: |>But there is no "standard library". You can call what you got from AT&T |>"standard" if you wish, but each vendor (including those who port cfront |>to different architectures) puts a different set of capabilities in their |>"standard library". There are things in libg++ that AT&T doesn't supply, |>similarly for all the others. stdio wasn't "standard", either. Whitesmiths (remember them?) shipped a C compiler without stdio in the early 80s. Note their remarkable success :-) The market will decide whose libraries are widely supported, and I'm betting on AT&T for the simple reason that most vendors look to AT&T, not GNU, for a porting base. |>Most of iostream's functionality is supported by stream, in any case. Irrelevant. Most of C++ 2.0's functionality is supported by 1.2 but that doesn't mean I'll make my code backward compatible.