This document is now in use at many hundreds of companies, research centers and universities

all over the world, from Chile and India to France, Australia and the USA. However, it was written

a long time ago. C++ has changed in quite many ways since 1992. Many new features have

been added to the language, like RTTI and namespaces, as well as a very powerful standard template

library, but C++ is now stable and very close to become an international standard.