Re: Non-blocking I/O

From: pinkfloydhomer_at_[hidden]
Date: 2001-03-06 10:42:39

--- In boost_at_y..., "Jeff Garland" <jeff_at_c...> wrote:
> 

> .political_commentary on
> From my perspective, for C++ to move forward we need to stop asking 
why we can't
> do something on every platform and start looking at how to provide 
essential
> things on as many platforms as possible.  The JAVA folks have done 
this well and
> JAVA is flourishing as a result.  Clearly, they have learned to 
live with
> subsets of standard libraries for devices that won't run GUI's, for 
example.
> C++ could easily do the same...
> .political_commentary off
> 
> Jeff

I agree with you 100% and has been thinking the same thing.