[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > Willem <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> In other words: There cannot be any commercial applicaiton written in C, >> because in your view it is not well suited to one or two application >> types you can think of. > > I don't think that's what James meant. I think when he said "commercial > application", he really meant "business data processing application". C > really *isn't* well suited to most BDP applications, so his statement is > much more reasonable when interpreted that way.
Whether you have interpreted him correctly is not for me to say, but what I am in a position to say is that I've written plenty of "BDP" applications in C, and I found it a very suitable language for the purpose. That is not to say that there are no other such languages, of course, but it's one of the better ones. I've used quite a few languages for "BDP", and I'd rank C in the top two of those few. Whether I'd place it first or second is a tough call. (C++ ranks a close third in my estimation.) > But I still suspect > that there are at least a few BDP applications written in C nonetheless. Loads. Absolutely loads. -- Richard Heathfield <http://www.cpax.org.uk> Email: -http://www. +rjh@ Google users: <http://www.cpax.org.uk/prg/writings/googly.php> "Usenet is a strange place" - dmr 29 July 1999 _______________________________________________ gnu-misc-discuss mailing list gnu-misc-discuss@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-misc-discuss