On 20 Jul., 10:23, James Kanze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Jul 19, 11:25 am, terminator <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > C was never really a good general purpose language. It was > never used (nor even usable) in commercial software, for > example.
This is not correct. My guess would be that there is loads of C-based software around. Speaking for myself, I have been developing commercial software in C from the days before C++ became popular. The software was a financial package which is still today very successfull. I was one of the programmers evaluating C++ as a replacement and even though I liked it very much, I had to reject it: we programmed for a segmented architecture (yes - it was so long ago!), and the current C+ + compilers we found did not have sufficiently good support for that. Had the compiler given us suficient support for the architecture, I would certainly have recommended C++. Also many of the database-products out there (e.g. Oracle) are written mostly or entirely in C. /Peter _______________________________________________ gnu-misc-discuss mailing list gnu-misc-discuss@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-misc-discuss
