From: jcburt@gatsibm.larc.nasa.gov () Subject: Re: ALPHA-pl11 available on nic: C++ support Date: 7 Jul 1993 11:53:13 GMT
In article <15973@blue.cis.pitt.edu> hahn@neurocog.lrdc.pitt.edu (Mark Hahn) writes:
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>Learn it now or learn it later: C++ is the standard.
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Ummm...Mark... A touch of reality please... C++ is popular, there *is* a C++
standard, but C++ is *not* *the* standard. If you look on the DoD side of things,
ADA is *the* standard, not C++. If you look at the Scientific community, FORTRAN
is *the* standard (with C and ADA making inroads). If you look at the Business
community, COBOL is *the* standard, although its becoming less so... About the
only place C++ is *the* standard is with C.S. Academia, and possibly with some
of Microsoft/Borland types...Perhaps it *will* become more popular in the future.
It *does* have some definite advantages over C, plus it provides a good OOP basis
(since OOPs seems to be a popular buzword these days). It is very doubtful that *any*
language will be *the* standard in the future...the Government *tried* to legislate
ADA as a standard, its only worked where it is required by contract...
John