[ConservativeInPA]

There’s all kind of flavors of c++ and the STL depending on the age of the compiler. I’m retired now and I really don’t keep that up to date. I still code some utilities in C++, but I primarily program in MQL4, which is a loosely encapsulated, C++ derived language used for trading securities. It just reeks of C++ under its hood and I have no idea why native C++ wasn’t used for MetaTrader which runs the MQL4 code.

I also don’t care about plagiarism when it comes to programming languages. Us old guys had to deal with all sorts of language variants most of our lives that you quickly realize there are a commonalities among ever language that you can not get rid because it’s directly tied to logic that all languages need to solve problems, and every language has its unique syntactical features depending on underlying programming models.

[cymbeline]

Thanks to all three of you (so far) that replied to my post asking about multiple flavors of C++.

The MBED environment supports dozens of multifunction target boards based on the ARM Cortex processor. A free development studio is provided with version control (Github), compiler, linker and real time operating system.

The thought of multiple flavors of C++ on top of all this stuff is horrifying. I don’t know why there’s much motivation for creating multiple flavors of the language itself.

I’d say also that you need to be Einstein to fully understand C++ 11. My major point here is that the overall software/hardware environment has become extremely complicated. Code apes have gone amuck!