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Subject: Re: Commentary on Industry Move to C++
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"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.