Re: Language support for flexible handling of system-detected errors.

[Tim Shoppa <shoppa@trailing-edge.com>]

Jim Rogers wrote:
> technology fads. When you consider dying languages you should
> add C to that list. Clearly its usage as a percent of all new
> development has dropped dramatically over the past 10 years.
> It is not being taught in universities any more. In fact, C++
> is seldom taught in universities any more. Both languages
> must be dying, just like Ada.

I think C/C++ is where Fortran was in the early 80's: Certainly very
passe' for a CS department to teach to CS majors, but not so
economically unviable that a CS department is unwilling hire out
faculty to teach it to the engineering or physics departments.

It will remain the "lingua franca" of lots of fields the same way
that Fortran is still used to illustrate algorithms in some fields.

There are two kinds of computers: obsolete, and obsolete-ready.

Tim.