Given how enormously complicated C++98 is, let alone C++0x, I think the last thing C++ needs is to jettison the standardization process in pursuit of faster evo

Given how enormously complicated C++98 is, let alone C++0x, I think the last thing C++ needs is to jettison the standardization process in pursuit of faster evolution. The evolution of C++ should be conservative: both because it is widely deployed on many different platforms and compilers for doing "serious" work, and because it already has far, far too much junk in it already.