The ISO committee began to standardize the C++ language is 1994, but didn’t deliver the “final” standard until November, 1997. Why do you think that it took several years to complete this task?
What will be an ideal response?
The whole committee had to reach an agreement on what would be the standardized version of the language. Everyone had different ideas so it did take years to reach agreement. Reference “The Design and Evolution of C++” by Bjarne Stroustrup.
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