Minus the 3/5ths compromise of course... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three-Fifths_Compromise http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three-Fifths_Compromise Committees

Minus the 3/5ths compromise of course... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three-Fifths_Compromise http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three-Fifths_Compromise Committees are all about compromise and compromises are usually a worse solution in everyone's eyes. I'm not saying C14 threads are as bad as slavery, but they are a compromise that I'm sure no one will prefer to their native thread library. I'm a bit surprise that ISO is even attempting to do generic threads. Who is this really a problem for? We have oodles of libraries that provide cross platform thread libraries. I don't see why we need the C standard to specify one.