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From: bob@lintilla.demon.co.uk (Bob Cousins)
Subject: Re: Thanks everyone! (was Re: Ada vs C++ vs Java)
Date: 1999/01/19
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In comp.arch.embedded, John Birch wrote:

>Martijn Lievaart wrote in message <781psh$1j1@news3.euro.net>...
>
>>I just want to thank everyone participating in this thread for making it a
>>hugely informative thread without evolving into holy wars. It seems we
>*are*
>>getting better at that!
>
>Yep, I certainly learnt something! <abashed emoticon eating humble pie>
>
>Now, anybody know of a good embedded C++ compiler? Last time I used C++ it
>was MS version 7 in an embedded environment! Perhaps that's soured my
>grapes. I keep hearing things about gcc, is it any good for hard embedded
>work?

This reminds me of Peter Ustinov's answer to the question "Which film did you
most enjoy making?", the answer being "my next one".

If you can apply what you have learned from other languages to writing a better
program in a new language, you've cracked it.
-- 
Bob Cousins, Software Engineer.
http://www.lintilla.demon.co.uk/
"We demand that we may, or may not, be philosophers!"