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Re: Why your next language better be C++

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James Kanze wrote:
> On Jul 20, 9:52 pm, "JBarleycorn" <jbn...@newsnet.org> wrote:
>> James Kanze wrote:
>>> On Jul 18, 5:18 pm, Lynn McGuire <l...@winsim.com> wrote:
>>>> Why your next language better be C++:
>
>>>> http://www.i-programmer.info/professional-programmer/i-programmer/267...
>
>>>> "It looks as if the war between C++ and C# is over
>>>> and C++ has won."
>
>>> More idiot ramblings.,  There was never a war between C++ and
>>> C#, so there can't be any winner or looser.
>
>> Since I have eval'd C# as a potential replacement for my use of C++
>> I am sure that many others have also.
>
> There are certainly things that one might have written in C++
> some years ago, and that one would perhaps write in Java or C#
> today.  But C# isn't really applicable for most of what C++
> does.

Oh? So what does "C++ do"? (rhetorical, for you answered that question 
below... stay tuned...).

>
>> Just because C++ has low-level
>> capabilities, that doesn't mean you have to use it that way.
>
> It has nothing to do with low level capabilities, and everything
> to do with the ability to manage large projects, over multiple
> platforms.
>
>> If not a war, a battle for sure.
>
> 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.. 

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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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