Re: C++ on the Down Slope?

[Martin <martin@thedowies.com>]

On Jan 11, 1:26 pm, Georg Bauhaus <rm.dash-bauh...@futureapps.de>
wrote:
> On 11.01.12 12:50, Martin wrote:
>
> > C/C++/Objective-C - I can see why they get grouped. C/C++/C# - I just
> > can't...
>
> Part of the reason why C# is sometimes counted among the
> nominal C languages is deliberate, I think: choosing the letter
> C blends optimally with Microsoft's language marketing initiatives.
> They have always known how to attract by assimilating popular ideas
> into their offerings.  Popularity correlates with an increase in
> likelihood of programmers taking curly braces for a sign of
> C quality.
>
> The reason that Netscape's browser based Lisp was named
> Javascript and the reason why it is using C style syntax,
> too, is similar; that's a fact insofar as some Netscape official
> once explained it this way, though I haven't got a link handy, sorry.
>
> Suppose A# wouldn't have all this 'Ref nonsense... :-)


Anyone for Cada?...

#define { begin
#define } end;

and away we go!!! :-)

-- Martin