I think something like this might be a very cool project for those of us who have the time. You get intimate knowledge of C++, compilers, assembly and other clo

I think something like this might be a very cool project for those of us who have the time. You get intimate knowledge of C++, compilers, assembly and other close-to-the-metal aspects of programming. I wonder how much time it is going to take; the very simple compiler I had to write in college using yacc/Bison, supplied boilerplating and a trivial output format already took several days of full-time work. Full C++-compliance seems like a _huge_ project. The website is missing some information however: who's behind it? It says: The CPPGM Foundation was formed by a software company that recognized the value to programmer productivity that a good knowledge of language mechanics had to new developers to their team. The C++ Grandmaster Certification began development as an internal training program, and the foundation was founded to offer it publicly. but fails to mention what that company is. Additionally, the domain is registered anonymously... Edit: After some digging, it seems that the only information available on the people behind this is the fact that they emailed the press release to the comp.lang.c++ newsgroup from a residential IP-address in Switzerland. (NNTP-Posting-Host header)