The existing C++ standard, ISO/IEC 14882, was published in 1998 and updated in 2003. The new standard has just been approved, and will hopefully come out in 201

The existing C++ standard, ISO/IEC 14882, was published in 1998 and updated in 2003. The new standard has just been approved, and will hopefully come out in 2011 and will be called C++11. So, a new C++ standard takes about 10 years. For the foreseeable feature, we'll be stuck with libraries and compiler specific features for parallelism.