[boost] Cut from the Art of Unix Programming

From: Alexander Nasonov (alnsn-mycop_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-01-23 05:04:00

The Art of Unix Programming
Eric Steven Raymond
Chapter 14

The Gnu Compiler Collection includes a C++ compiler. The language is
therefore universally available on Unix and on Microsoft operating systems;
comments made under C above also apply here. Strong collections of
open-source  support libraries are
available. However, portability is compromised by the fact that (as of
mid-2003) actual C++ implementations implement widely varying subsets of
the draft ISO standard now in preparation.[125]

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[125] The last C++ standard, dating from 1998, was widely implemented but
weak, especially in the area of libraries.

http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/taoup/html/ch14s04.html#cc_language

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Alexander Nasonov
Independent Developer and Consultant