The Design and Evolution of C++, First Edition

5. Chronology 1985-1993

Remember, things take time.

– Piet Hein

Post-Release-1.0 chronology — Release 2.0 — 2.0 feature overview — The Annotated C++ Reference Manual and informal standardization — ARM feature overview — ANSI and ISO standardization — standard feature overview.

5.1 Introduction

Part II presents features added to complete C++. The presentation is organized around language features rather than chronologically. This chapter provides the chronology.

The reason to depart from the chronological organization is that the actual time order was not important to the final definition of C++. I knew in general terms where the language was going, what problems needed to be addressed, and what kind of features might be needed to address them. ...