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From: richard@pantor.UUCP (Richard Sargent)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: Re: C++ Not Ready for Commercial Use
Message-ID: <26.UUL1.3#5109@pantor.UUCP>
Date: 25 Oct 89 14:19:02 GMT
References: <1520002@hpmwjaa.HP.COM>
Organization: Pansophic Systems Inc, Graphics Product Company
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jeffa@hpmwtd.HP.COM (Jeff Aguilera) wrote in message <1520002@hpmwjaa.HP.COM>:

> C is dead.  Long live C++.


Don't be silly. C has a very long life ahead of it, too. After all,
just look at FORTRAN (1956!). I'm sure Algol proponents said much
the same about FORTRAN.

Now, some will claim that C++ has stronger typing than C. This is
a valid claim, provided you've been saddled with a K&R implementation.
I don't know how things are in the real world, but here in PC-land,
most C compilers I have worked with have tracked the developing
ANSI C standard. This means I have had strong typing and prototypes
for nigh on two years now.

I wonder when Unix C compilers will get updated?

Richard Sargent                   Internet: richard@pantor.UUCP
Systems Analyst                   UUCP:     uunet!pantor!richard