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- From: wright@staff.tc.umn.edu (Mark Wright)
- Subject: Re: Pros and cons of C++
- Message-ID: <1993Jan8.002618.15659@news2.cis.umn.edu>
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- References: <C0Hp1n.vp@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca> <1993Jan7.160959.9381@eua.ericsson.se>
- Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 00:26:18 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan7.160959.9381@eua.ericsson.se> euamts@eua.ericsson.se writes:
- >In article vp@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca, yjohn@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca (John Ross) writes:
- >
- >// Deleted
- >
- >#Why then is it becoming so popular? Why the deluge of texts, articles,
- >#magazines, news groups, compilers, etc? It seems to me that C++ _will_
- >#be the language of choice for programmers (except in specialized areas
- >#where other languages will continue to be used). It would be nice to get a
- >#balanced view of where C++ fits into the scheme of things.
- >#Unfortunately, language issues often assume the aspect of a religious
- >#war, with rabid supporters and detractors.
- >
- >I think someone ought to do some sociological research on this. I can agree
- >with people claiming C++ is very complex, but I don't know any other OO
- >language, so I cannot say if it is overly complex or not.
-
- Well, for those of us in the dos world (which is the largest software market,
- and therefore if it isn't setting the trends, it definitely determines which
- ones will survive), I'm sure that alot of us switched to C++ just because it
- was there - Borland's been packaging C++ with their very popular C compiler
- for a long time now, and eventually people just start to wonder what it's all
- about.
- >
- >Mats Henricson
- >Ellemtel
- >Sweden
-
-
- --
- Mark Wright
- wright@epx.cis.umn.edu
-