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Re:Apache Kills Off Its C++ Standard Library by radmuzom on Thursday July 18, 2013 @04:43PM (#6066323)
I am not familiar with the history of this project, but why was Apache trying to re-create the C++ standard library at all? Given that in GNU/Linux systems, the canonical implementation is the one provided by GCC (G++), and Microsoft provides their own implementations.
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Re:Apache Kills Off Its C++ Standard Library by klodolph on Thursday July 18, 2013 @11:10PM (#6068107)
1) There are more platforms than "GCC" and "Microsoft". Maybe your microwave oven runs code written in C++, who knows.

2) In 2005, some existing C++ standard libraries did not follow the standard very well.

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Re:Apache Kills Off Its C++ Standard Library by pjmlp on Friday July 19, 2013 @02:57AM (#6068708)
Not only that, there are many more C and C++ compilers out there than just clang, gcc and msvc.
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Re:Apache Kills Off Its C++ Standard Library by rfctr on Thursday July 18, 2013 @10:17PM (#6067929)
... not even mentioning STLport.

http://www.stlport.org/news.html

Apache project looks like "me too" one.

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