Re: ada and robots

["John G. Volan" <johnvolan@sprintmail.com>]

Brian Rogoff wrote:
> 
> On 19 Jun 1997, Jon S Anthony wrote:
> > BTW, I've completely given up on C++.
> > I think C still has its uses, but C++?  I don't think so.
> 
> I do.
> 
> C++ is a very widely used *family-of-languages*
                            ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

If this is really the case, then this is a serious problem with C++. 
The lack of a commonly-agreed upon standard that completely defines the
semantics of C++ as a _single_ language, with all available compilers
reliably implementing all of its features in comparable and compatible
ways, must be viewed as a major strike against it. (To be fair, such a
standard _is_ in the works, but the irony is that historians may
actually take the date of the final ISO vote of approval for the C++
standard as the official date of C++'s death as a fad, and its
replacement by the next fad, Java.) :-)

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