What new language features will C++0x provide?
You don’t improve a language by simply adding every feature that someone considers a good idea. In fact, essentially every feature of most modern language has been been suggested to me for C++ by someone: Try to imagine what the superset of C90, C#, Java, Haskell, Lisp, Python, and Ada would look like. To make the problem more difficult, remember that it is not really feasible to eliminate older features, even if the committee agrees that they are bad: experience shows that users force every implementer to keep providing deprecated and banned features under compatibility switches (or by default) for decades. To try to select rationally from the flood of suggestions we devised a set of specific design aims. We couldn’t couldn’t completely follow them and they weren’t sufficiently complete to guide the committee in every detail (and IMO couldn’t possible be that complete).
