Subj : Re: [RFC] Boost.Threads on its way to C++0x
To   : comp.programming.threads
From : Bronek Kozicki
Date : Fri Apr 29 2005 11:37 pm

Randy Howard wrote:
> brok@rubikon.pl says...
>>and if you believe that you can write one, go on and submit proposal 
>>to the C++ committee. 

> I didn't say I wanted to write some new library.  I'm not sure why 
> you are being argumentative, I simply asked why a standards body 
> would ignore a widely used solution just because Microsoft does not 
> currently include a header file.  When is the last time a header was 
> included to support a standard that had not been approved yet?

your assumoption that standard committee does not standarize posix 
threads in C++ "just because Microsoft" is ridiculous. Did it occured to 
you that, in order to standarize something, proposal has to be written 
and championed in the committee meetings? Maybe members of the C++ 
standard committe do not consider pthreads superior to other possible 
solutions, thus none of them prepared relevant proposal? Or maybe they 
are just short of experts like you, who (apparently) know pthreads and 
C++ well enough to write such proposal?


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