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No thanks.No thanks.Posted Nov 12, 2012 2:05 UTC (Mon) by Cyberax (✭ supporter ✭, #52523)In reply to: No thanks. by paulj Parent article: Haley: We're doing an ARM64 OpenJDK port!
>Herbert Schildt, "C++ Nuts & Bolts for Experienced Programmers", Osborne McGraw-Hill, 1995. (Yes, Schildt has gotten flack for technical errors / flaws on C++ in his books, and yes, this book wasn't intended to be a reference).
He's not a member of C++ committee.
>When was Boost created? late 90s. Before Boost there was the HP and SGI STL, which I gather inspired the standardised STL (and Boost?), and iostream.
Exceptions appeared in GCC 2.7 in 1997, I think. Before that there was little reason to use them and to create best practices for them. Though the usefulness of RAII was understood earlier.
In Java exceptions with try..finally also appeared at about the same time. But without RAII.
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No thanks. Posted Nov 12, 2012 14:35 UTC (Mon) by paulj (subscriber, #341) [Link]
Well, Schildt's wikipedia page says he was involved in C++ standardisation in the 90s. I don't know myself if that's correct or not.
As for exceptions, they were developed in the late 80s, standardised in the early 90s, and there were commercial compilers supporting exceptions since at least '92 apparently. See: http://www.stroustrup.com/hopl2.pdf. The release history of GCC possibly isn't that relevant, a number of proprietary implementations of C++ had more significant usage than g++ back then iirc.
Anyway..
No thanks. Posted Nov 12, 2012 14:38 UTC (Mon) by paulj (subscriber, #341) [Link]
Oh, the '95 Schildt book has a section on exceptions.
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