Anson the Gnome

Per Slashdot, an interview with Bjarne Stroustrup. He's always an interesting read, and there's quite a bit of meat in the article that has me interested.

Of course, C++0x ("...it's touch and go whether C++0x will be C++09..." he says) won't be out and available in compilers for some time, but once it does... my impression is that a lot of the new syntactic sugar constitutes compile-time checks that won't really affect run-time performance. With IncrediBuild and distcc to distribute compilation and reduce build times, it's naturally time to start adding more work for the compiler to do.

I'm not so sure about the concurrency/threading support being added. There's a lot of pre-existing code, APIs, and kernel-level interfaces that will need to be adapted, and most of it simply won't. At a guess, I won't get to work with the concurrency stuff for another five years (I guess that means I'm optimistic that there will be C++0x implementations out in less than five years).

Well before Dungeon Runners, I was using "Anson" for various game-related things - but the genesis of the name is, oddly enough, in gnomes. In honor of the Bling variety of gnomes, but also to harken back to those earlier times when most of the games I played were of the pen-and-paper variety, I've got a new name. Go me. :-)

Yes, I was laid off today. Lots of stuff going on, but mostly things about which I should or would rather not say. I'm planning on renaming the journal, to cut out 'nc,' but I'm still trying to decide on the new name ('anson' is already taken).

In my profile, I say "[b]ecause LiveJournal is used by spammers (and I don't have any fancy WordPress plug-ins to screen spam), anonymous comments are screened... but still allowed. Please feel free to comment!" Turns out I was on the money, and I get quite a bit of spam here, almost all of which has been anonymous comments.

I've had a few anonymous comments that made me glad that anonymous comments aren't outright banned, but the vast majority have also made me happy I screen them. So let me reiterate: anonymous comments that are more than just search engine keywords and links to spam are completely welcome, and I'll try to unscreen them and make them visible as quickly as I can. If you have an LJ account or OpenID, you'll get through quicker, but I try to be responsive about anonymous comments too.