> I can't imagine how C++ standardization efforts could possibly correlate in any way with industry adoption. The two things are completely orthogonal. I don't

> I can't imagine how C++ standardization efforts could possibly correlate in any way with industry adoption. The two things are completely orthogonal. I don't think they're orthogonal: standardization efforts don't happen until you have significant industry adoption of technology X from several vendors and they (and/or their customers) decide it'd better if their implementations could interoperate. Why do you think they're completely orthogonal? It's possible, of course, that the C++0x (C++1x?) standardization round is taking place on the peak or the decreasing side of C++ adoption (due to the increased complexity of C++, users finding benefits to non-C++ languages, movement into areas where C++ doesn't help much, etc.). But I don't think that's the case; perhaps we're on a plateau of C++ adoption, if anything.