Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!usenet.pasdenom.info!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Todd Carnes Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++ Subject: Re: What's your opinion? "C++ is back..." Date: Sun, 17 Jul 2011 03:59:02 +0000 (UTC) Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Lines: 28 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: uqlV+6kNo2Z0TnMsKGN6tA.user.speranza.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Pan/0.133 (House of Butterflies) X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.c++:7902 On Sat, 16 Jul 2011 15:37:29 -0500, MikeP wrote: > Todd Carnes wrote: >> On Fri, 15 Jul 2011 23:53:39 -0500, MikeP wrote: >> >>> It depends on what Microsoft decides. >> >> Who cares what Microsoft thinks about anything? > > You misquoted me: you left off the wink emoticon. Sorry about that. It was unintentional. > To answer your > question though, the fact is that MS has a lot of power to affect the > way developers create software because of the omni-presence of its own > software. If MS decides to drop C++ as a viable Windows development tool > (incrementally maybe by creating things like "managed code" and > requiring C++/CLI to use .Net, etc.), it can do so and you can complain > all you want to but if you want to deploy your software on theirs, then > you will just have to grin and bare it. (Another example: No inline > assembler in VC++ for 64-bit Windows :( ). I realize after reviewing my post that I probably came across as an a##hole. My question could have been worded better. Thanks responding. You make some good points. Todd