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From: jima@hplsla.HP.COM (Jim Adcock)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: Re: C++ and Standard Libraries
Message-ID: <6590201@hplsla.HP.COM>
Date: 17 Jul 89 15:58:57 GMT
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> >Does a conforming C++ compiler have to provide streams?  complex numbers?
> 
> Streams seems to expected. Complex numbers less so. But these are library
> issues, not language ones.

Actually, compiler issues, not library issues.  Conforming compilers have to
provide standard libraries.  Then the common libraries of a language -like
streams- because a defacto part of the language, and people start writing
compilers that move some of the libraries functionality to the compiler,
making for faster code.

I look forward to the day, maybe five or ten years from now, where reasonbly
priced C++ compilers *with libraries* are available from dozens of vendors,
and programs not containing machine dependencies will successfully compile
*and link* on all of them.

Progress seems painfully slow now though.