Re: Commentary on Industry Move to C++

[Gary Scott <Gary.L.Scott@lmtas.lmco.com>]

Aerospace/embedded processors.  There's absolutely no way anyone would
consider Java given current processor performance and real-time
processing requirements.

Andrzej Lewandowski wrote:
> 
> "Gary Scott" <Gary.L.Scott@lmtas.lmco.com> wrote in message news:3B859FCD.5FEA40DD@lmtas.lmco.com...
> > Hi,
> >
> > I've had some time now to consider the recent trends of my industry
> > moving new projects to C++.  As a lead system test engineer, I am now
> > inclined to approve of this trend.  I anticipate much more business
> > (testing) in the future due to a significant increase in the number of
> > software anomalies.  This I feel will keep me gainfully employed for a
> > number of additional years while also making my job much more
> > interesting (more challenging anomalies to solve).
> 
> I don't know what is your industry. But industry in general has
> already moved to Java and VB and will be moving pretty soon to C#.
> According to recent statistics (don't remember the source - Gartner?...)
> number of programmers using Java is karger than the number of
> programmers using C++
> 
> A.L.