C++0x no more

I have read a couple of posts lately about the removal of Concepts from the upcoming C++ standard. I started with part 1 and part 2 of a report from the last committee meeting in Frankfurt by Michael Wong. He was in Aachen this week to give a talk about the new features. Unfortunately I missed it, reading the announcement poster and parsing the start time and not the end time is, you know...

Lately Bjarne Stroustroup wrote an article about the decision to remove Concepts from C++0x. And from what I've read it seems we shouldn't be too sorry about the removal. There is still a lot of new stuff that one can get excited about and that should make our live easier. It'll be more likely C++1x now as he states.

However, I wonder when we will see enough coverage in the features and when all target platforms and systems have been upgraded so that you can actually use those features... We are still using Fedora Core 6 machines regularly (due to missing propietary driver updates). Also for the Nao currently GCC 4.2 is used, as is on FreeBSD 7.2. So we'll have some time...