Re: Is C/C++ the future?

[dweller@Starbase.NeoSoft.COM (David Weller)]

In article <CwLqrD.KDo@bocanews.bocaraton.ibm.com>,
Bernie Thompson <bernie_thompson@bocaraton.ibm.com> wrote:
>
>VisualAge uses SOM as its underlying object binding method.
>Taligent will provide SOM wrappers for its C++ classes.
>
>SOM is language-neutral.  Although ADA bindings havn't yet been
>produced (to my knowledge), there is nothing to prevent it.
>And that would mean Ada code could call/subclass/etc all of that
>C++ code.
>
>The judgements here are that use of anything other than C++ would be
>rejected by the marketplace.
>
Unless you're using Ada :-)  

This goes back to my discussion about following the market vs.
creating the market.

I'm in the "If you build it, they will come" category :-)


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