Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!clyde.concordia.ca!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!rutgers!aramis.rutgers.edu!paul.rutgers.edu!emuleomo From: emuleomo@paul.rutgers.edu (Emuleomo) Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc Subject: Re: Relationship between C and C++ Message-ID: Date: 23 Mar 90 11:22:53 GMT References: <5200048@m.cs.uiuc.edu> <14539@cbnewsc.ATT.COM> Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J. Lines: 17 With all this ranting and raving about the evils of pointer arithmetic in C, do people realise that it may not have been possible to implement C++ in C (i.e. cfront translator) without using these evil pointers? Futhermore, how come C is rapidly becoming the most popular application implementation language in the world if it is sooo evil? In fact, most PC applications (Lotus 1-2-3, Foxbase+, Wordperfect etc...) are being written in C!!! I say, like capitalism, let the market (users) decide the going price (favourite language) for the product. Remember that Ada, despite DOD funding, is languishing! I daresay that even Forth, an entirely user driven language, is more popular. (No disrespect to Forth whatsoever) --Emuleomo O.O. (emuleomo@yes.rutgers.edu) -- ** The ONLY thing we learn from history is that we don't learn from history!