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Considering the number of articles and polls we come across asking if C++ is dying or dead combined with the decrease in C++ job posting I have personally noticed, C++ sure is alive and well in the AI frontier.

C++ takes or ties the top 27 places at the 2010 Google AI Challenge

I have an AOA 150 (ZG5) Acer Aspire One. I've had it for a little over one year now and have loved the portability. However, since first getting it, I've been plagued with: instability, wireless data errors, wireless disconnection errors and the inability to sleep or hibernate in Windows and Linux. The problems have not been constant, but have certainly caused a good deal of frustration.

We previously covered options for backup and recovery on systems with no CDROM drive. I've since moved my netbook to Windows 7 and have come across a few more options.

In the context of the rest of the Nobody Understands C++ series, I feel like this one is redundant. But it seems like it needs to be said.

C++ is not an object oriented programming language. C++ is a multi-paradigm language that supports most of the major programming paradigms that have been widely accepted.

Specifically, C++ supports:

As others have pointed out, the Final Committee Draft (FCD) of the next C++ standard is now available for anyone to download.

GCC 4.5.0 has frozen and the release has made it to the front page. This is significant to me for 2 main reasons.

1. Faster Template Compiles

A major side project of mine, ChaiScript suffers from extremely long compile times. Part of the reason is because of 1000's of templates being instantiated for even the simplest project.