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**Title**: Can C++ Remain Relevant?\\
**Proposer**: [[2015:Russel Winder]]\\
**Type**: Presentation\\
**Duration**: 90 mins\\
**Description**: \\
Although multicore is now the norm in hardware, programming languages such as C++ are still anchored to
ancient hardware architectures. Chapel and X10 are investigating partitioned global address space (PGAS)
creating a high-level way of handling parallelism. Go is investigating an analogue of communicating
sequential processes (CSP) to achieve a modern approach. D, Java, Scala, Groovy, and even Python are all now high performance languages with strong support for high level concurrency and parallelism codes. C++'s slow decline into obscurity seems assured. Unless the audience knows better…can the audience show C++ competing in multi-processor, multicore processor, cluster computing?\\
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