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I remember a white paper outlining MS's initial attempts (c. 2000?) to add additional syntax to C++ in order to save developers from much of the quagmire that w
by tragomaskhalos 12y ago
I remember a white paper outlining MS's initial attempts (c. 2000?) to add additional syntax to C++ in order to save developers from much of the quagmire that was COM programming in C++, before abandoning the whole thing in favour of .NET. So nice to see that the language can now suppport that effort natively.
- pjmlp 12y agoIt was called Ext-VOS. http://blogs.msdn.com/b/dsyme/archive/2012/07/05/more-c-net-generics-history-the-msr-white-paper-from-mid-1999.aspx http://blogs.msdn.com/b/dsyme/archive/2012/07/05/more-c-net-... WinRT is basically Ext-VOS reborn with .NET metadata.