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Re: What kinds of applications need C++ developers?

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From	James Kuyper <jameskuyper@verizon.net>
Subject	Re: What kinds of applications need C++ developers?
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Date	2015-05-20 14:24 -0600

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On 05/20/2015 01:35 PM, Michael David Crawford wrote:
> 
> I'm not trying to start a language war here...
> 
> Mobile applications are most commonly written in Objective-C or Java.  Web
> applications commonly use Javascript, PHP, Python, Java, Ruby or Perl.
> 
> C++ is commonly used for financial applications, 3-D gaming and
> cryptography. 
> 
> It's also used for Mac OS X I/O Kit Kernel Extensions - what Apple calls
its
> device drivers - however that form of C++ is EC++, the inappropriately
named
> Embedded C++.  It doesn't permit a lot of techniques that I enjoy when I
> write for other kinds of platforms.
> 
> What other kinds of applications need C++ developers?

A large fraction of the scientific data processing code for the projects
that I work on is C++ code. Most of the rest is C, and some of it is
Fortran. Regardless of which language is used, the programs reads some
input files, perform various manipulations on the input data to create
the output data, and then write output files, without any user
interaction, and no use of the internet in any way, which makes these
programs seem extremely odd to many people. The farthest upstream
programs (several of which are my responsibility) read raw data
transmitted down from a satellite observing the Earth. The farthest
downstream programs produce dozens of different products that describe
climate patterns, plant cover, pollution levels, chlorophyl levels in
the ocean, etc.

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What kinds of applications need C++ developers? Michael David Crawford <mdcrawford@googlemail.com> - 2015-05-20 11:35 -0600
  Re: What kinds of applications need C++ developers? "Jason C. McDonald" <indeliblebluepen@nospam.invalid> - 2015-05-20 14:24 -0600
  Re: What kinds of applications need C++ developers? Wouter van Ooijen <wouter@voti.nl> - 2015-05-20 14:22 -0600
  Re: What kinds of applications need C++ developers? James Kuyper <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2015-05-20 14:24 -0600
  Re: What kinds of applications need C++ developers? Michael David Crawford <mdcrawford@googlemail.com> - 2015-05-20 20:40 -0600
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  Re: What kinds of applications need C++ developers? "Walter H." <Walter.H-Nntp@mathemainzel.info> - 2015-05-27 14:00 -0600
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