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- From: cshaver@informix.com (Craig Shaver)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++
- Subject: Re: C/C++ Speed
- Message-ID: <1993Jan11.210015.12072@informix.com>
- Date: 11 Jan 93 21:00:15 GMT
- References: <1iq4jj$5fr@agate.berkeley.edu> <C0o6M0.9wD@ulowell.ulowell.edu> <1993Jan11.161017.16545@taumet.com>
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- In article <1993Jan11.161017.16545@taumet.com> mike@taumet.com (Mike Ball) writes:
- >vpham@cs.ulowell.edu (vinh) writes:
- >
- >>to me, the most complex piece of software is an OS; and so far
- >>i haven't seen a successful commercial OS written in C++.
- >
- >Most of which just shows inexperience. Operating systems are far from
- >the most complex software out there.
- >
- >Also, all successful commercial OS's were written decades ago, since it
- >takes that long to become a success.
- >--
- >Michael S. Ball (mike@taumet.com)
- >TauMetric Corporation
-
- A few years ago there was a rumour that the Sun/ATT DeathStar :') alliance was
- going to rewrite UNIX using OOPS and C++. Does anyone know what happened to
- that idea?
-
- I know of a few projects that won't be using C++ because of safety and
- portability concerns!
-
- Why is c++ supposed to be safer than c?
-
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