Christopher Smith wrote:
Andrew Lentvorski wrote:
It's the C++ folks who should feel the threat. C++ really needs to
die at this point.
Yes, they should be really threatened by all the other languages that
have been used to implement full featured browsers. Languages like......
Okay, maybe they aren't so worried. ;-)
Yet businesses who are running much larger codebases seem to be all Java
based. Gee, I wonder why ....
Or maybe, that means we should use a language like C++ for really large,
complicated systems like ... say ... operating systems? Hmmmm, no that
doesn't seem to quite fit either since no large operating system has
been written in C++.
Don't confuse arguments of merit vs. arguments of inertia.
Every current browser that I can think of has a code base that stems
from a time when the only really commercially used languages were Cobol,
FORTRAN, C, C++, Lisp, and Ada. When you then factor in the price of
language compilers other than GNU C/C++ back in the 1988-1994 timeframe,
you have a whopping codebase built around machine assumptions and
economic conditions that haven't held for almost 20 years.
Of course, since C++ doesn't even play well between different compilers,
it's no surprise that those who use C++ are trapped with it.
-a
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