GSL and (visual) c++

[Andreas Krueger]

Hello,

Today I encountered the GSL - great! I already love it.
It will be sooooo useful for my scientific programming.

However, there are three questions:

a) Is there something similar in c++ ?

b) How do I use it in general c++?
   Why is it platform specific for non-Windows systems?
   (as said on http://sources.redhat.com/gsl/ )
   Isn't c/c++ independent of the OS?
   How can I implement it into my "Visual-C++"-environment?

c) Can I use only parts of it? e.g. statistics only

Many thanks in advance...

ciao,
Andreas

P.S.: I couldn't find any support for "error propagation",
      perhaps you can also implement my "class measure<T>":
      www.andreask.de/cpp/measure