From: hahn@neurocog.lrdc.pitt.edu (Mark Hahn) Subject: Re: ALPHA-pl11 available on nic: C++ support Date: 8 Jul 1993 14:21:34 GMT
Fergus James HENDERSON (fjh@munta.cs.mu.OZ.AU) wrote:
> >>Learn it now or learn it later: C++ is the standard.
> >>
> >Ummm...Mark... A touch of reality please... C++ is popular, there *is* a C++
> >standard, but C++ is *not* *the* standard.
> To correct a factual error: there is no C++ standard as yet.
> The C++ standard is not expected to be completed until about 1996 or later
> (very roughly).
This is getting ridiculous. Look, if you're interested in writing new and
interesting software for a real market, you WILL use C++. There is still a
place for Fortran, and even Cobol (near Hell.) Standards such as ANSI C are
useful, but in the case of C++ are only going to be legislating trivial
fringes, like libraries. ARM is only a few years old and isn't going to be
obsoleted the way K&R has been.
Use classes and overloading and inlining; they're here to stay and they
offer real advantages over straight C code.
regards, mark hahn.