Re: Why your next language better be C++

From	"Bo Persson" <bop@gmb.dk>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.c++
Subject	Re: Why your next language better be C++
Date	2011-07-23 16:30 +0200
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JBarleycorn wrote:
> James Kanze wrote:
>>
>> There was never a battle, because C# never tried to be what C++
>> is: a portable language for large scale applications.
>
> At least you marketeers are getting off of that "general purpose
> language" thing now and trying to sell it as still good for some
> niche. Basically, you just said: don't use it unless you have a
> "large project, over multiple platforms"... way to go Mr. C++
> Salesman... I sure hope you don't work on a commission basis! I
> wonder how many of these so called "large projects, over multiple
> platforms" wouldn't have cost a boatload less if they just would
> have made sure that the deployment spaces were all Microsoft
> platforms, where they could have been on MS platforms, that is..

Considering that James work as a consultant, I think you must have 
missed something.  :-)

If you write server side software that is supposed to run on things 
other than a Windows Server, what is the advantage of C#? Not 
everything is a desktop application.



Bo Persson

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Why your next language better be C++ Lynn McGuire <lmc@winsim.com> - 2011-07-18 11:18 -0500
  Re: Why your next language better be C++ "Paul" <pchristor@yahoo.co.uk> - 2011-07-18 19:46 +0100
  Re: Why your next language better be C++ Goran <goran.pusic@gmail.com> - 2011-07-19 00:03 -0700
    Re: Why your next language better be C++ "Bo Persson" <bop@gmb.dk> - 2011-07-19 17:19 +0200
    Re: Why your next language better be C++ Noah Roberts <dont@email.me> - 2011-07-19 09:39 -0700
    Re: Why your next language better be C++ Paavo Helde <myfirstname@osa.pri.ee> - 2011-07-19 13:35 -0500
      Re: Why your next language better be C++ James Kanze <james.kanze@gmail.com> - 2011-07-21 05:31 -0700
    Re: Why your next language better be C++ Lynn McGuire <lmc@winsim.com> - 2011-07-19 13:59 -0500
    Re: Why your next language better be C++ Rui Maciel <rui.maciel@gmail.com> - 2011-07-21 01:42 +0100
  Re: Why your next language better be C++ BGB <cr88192@hotmail.com> - 2011-07-19 03:00 -0700
    Re: Why your next language better be C++ Rui Maciel <rui.maciel@gmail.com> - 2011-07-21 01:28 +0100
      Re: Why your next language better be C++ BGB <cr88192@hotmail.com> - 2011-07-21 00:37 -0700
        Re: Why your next language better be C++ Jorgen Grahn <grahn+nntp@snipabacken.se> - 2011-07-21 15:53 +0000
          Re: Why your next language better be C++ BGB <cr88192@hotmail.com> - 2011-07-21 12:31 -0700
            Re: Why your next language better be C++ Rui Maciel <rui.maciel@gmail.com> - 2011-07-22 10:21 +0100
              Re: Why your next language better be C++ BGB <cr88192@hotmail.com> - 2011-07-22 10:43 -0700
  Re: Why your next language better be C++ James Kanze <james.kanze@gmail.com> - 2011-07-20 13:12 -0700
    Re: Why your next language better be C++ "JBarleycorn" <jbnh2o@newsnet.org> - 2011-07-20 15:52 -0500
      Re: Why your next language better be C++ James Kanze <james.kanze@gmail.com> - 2011-07-21 05:39 -0700
        Re: Why your next language better be C++ "JBarleycorn" <jbnh2o@newsnet.org> - 2011-07-21 14:54 -0500
          Re: Why your next language better be C++ Noah Roberts <dont@email.me> - 2011-07-21 13:47 -0700
          Re: Why your next language better be C++ Rui Maciel <rui.maciel@gmail.com> - 2011-07-22 10:30 +0100
          Re: Why your next language better be C++ James Kanze <james.kanze@gmail.com> - 2011-07-22 12:35 -0700
          Re: Why your next language better be C++ "Bo Persson" <bop@gmb.dk> - 2011-07-23 16:30 +0200
            Re: Why your next language better be C++ BGB <cr88192@hotmail.com> - 2011-07-23 12:04 -0700
            Re: Why your next language better be C++ Werner <werasm@gmail.com> - 2011-07-25 00:00 -0700
    Re: Why your next language better be C++ Lynn McGuire <lmc@winsim.com> - 2011-07-20 17:36 -0500
      Re: Why your next language better be C++ "Bo Persson" <bop@gmb.dk> - 2011-07-21 20:42 +0200
    Re: Why your next language better be C++ Ebenezer <woodbrian77@gmail.com> - 2011-07-20 22:36 -0700
    Re: Why your next language better be C++ Michael DOUBEZ <michael.doubez@free.fr> - 2011-07-21 04:52 -0700
    Re: Why your next language better be C++ "JBarleycorn" <jbnh2o@newsnet.org> - 2011-07-21 17:54 -0500

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