[cpp-threads] RE: "Agenda" for august 23-25 concurrency meeting

[Nick Maclaren]

Howard Hinnant <hinnant at twcny.rr.com> wrote:
>
> Sorry Nick, I have far more experience with move semantics in C++  
> than you do, and a full implementation on my desk right now. ...

Yes, VASTLY more, but I didn't mean to imply otherwise.  I apologise
if it read impertinently.  What I actually meant by that wasn't really
along the lines that I understand your response to be, but closer to
Lawrence's and about implementation and resource management issues.
The aspects I am thinking of are unlikely to affect anyone badly
except the hard real-time and HPC communities.

I could try to explain, but I doubt that it would be helpful until I
know a lot more about the implicit assumptions that the C++ community
is making.  I am not finding them terribly easy to deduce - sorry!

> Fwiw, Fortran was my first language too (IV).

It wasn't mine :-)  But the aspects of Fortran 90 I am referring to
were inherited from Algol 68, not Fortran 77, anyway.  And not very
successfully handled in most versions of Algol 68 or Fortran 90 :-(


Regards,
Nick Maclaren,
University of Cambridge Computing Service,
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