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- From: jdege@winternet.com (Jeff Dege)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
- Subject: Re: Why C++ sucks++
- Date: 11 Feb 1996 16:18:42 GMT
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- On Sun, 11 Feb 1996 00:40:36 +0000, Bill Michell (Bill@mics.demon.co.uk) wrote:
- : In article <4f3mqm$dgk@blackice.winternet.com>, Jeff Dege
- : <jdege@winternet.com> writes
- : > Including the fact that shell scripts are almost always the appropriate
- : >tool for problems of this complexity.
- :
- : Portability? Whats that?
-
- Shell scripts are more portable, across more platforms, than any
- other code I've seen.
-
- : Your 'solution' assumes people are running UNIX. In the real world, 90%
- : of users are running DOS. Do you care? It seems not...
-
- My `solution' assumed a Posix standard shell. True you can find these
- on Unix systems, but the only OS I've ever worked with that didn't have
- a Posix shell available was the Mac's, and that was some years ago. There
- are a number of sources for standard shells under MsDOS.
-
- On the other hand, if you don't care about portability, every OS
- I've ever worked with except the Mac's has _some_ shell language. And
- while these may be very poorly done (e.g., MsDOS's .BAT files), they
- may be the tool of choice for many problems.
-
- : BTW Most C++ compilers support the String class implicitly...
-
- Most C++ compilers ship with a string class. That doesn't mean that
- C++ is the right solution for every problem, or for this problem.
-
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