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- From: seebs@solutions.solon.com (Peter Seebach)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.eiffel,comp.lang.c,comp.object,comp.software-eng
- Subject: Re: Beware of "C" Hackers -- A rebuttal to Bertrand Meyer
- Date: 17 Mar 1996 14:43:54 -0600
- Organization: Usenet Fact Police (Undercover)
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- References: <4i862r$1evq@saba.info.ucla.edu> <4i9u0l$vru@saba.info.ucla.edu> <4ia3gf$drf@solutions.solon.com> <DoE2nH.FIM@iquest.net>
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- In article <DoE2nH.FIM@iquest.net>,
- Doug & Rose Miller <dlmiller@iquest.net> wrote:
- >+Statistically speaking, it's hard to find *any* Eiffel programmers. It is no
- >+coincidence that the majority of programmers of *any* sort today are using C
- >+at least some of the time; it's the most widespread language
-
- >WRONG. Guess again. It's Cobol.
-
- No, Cobol is the language with the largest installed base of code - possibly.
- Are there really 100+ million machines out there running Cobol software? The
- PC industry has shoved C based software into almost every home.
-
- I was talking about new development. Assuming that jobs held are within an
- order of magnitude of being proportional to jobs advertised, C is ahead,
- but about to be eclipsed by C++.
-
- -s
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- Peter Seebach - seebs@solon.com - Copyright 1996 Peter Seebach.
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- The *other* C FAQ - http://www.solon.com/~seebs/c/c-iaq.html
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