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5mo ago

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How an MS-DOS picklist problem in 1991 became std::bitset -- by the author who proposed it

I served on the original ISO C++ Standards Committee (J16) and proposed std::bitset . I recently wrote up the story of how it came to be -- starting from a memory-constrained MS-DOS application, through the early days of templates, and into C++98.

I also touch on the parallel story of bitstring , which became vector<bool> and eventually boost::dynamic_bitset .

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daveedvdv

5mo ago

Thanks for writing that up!

Weary-Inspector-4297

5mo ago

Is this Daveed Vandervoorde? Wow! So good to hear from you. Your work on templates was amazing. Good times. I’ll be writing more such history on my new blog.

daveedvdv

5mo ago

Hi!…