Re: PC Week and C++

[daver@Starbase.NeoSoft.COM (Dave Retherford)]

In article <3duve1$25q@dayuc.dayton.saic.com>,
James Hopper  <jim_Hopper@dayton.saic.com> wrote:
> thought this group would find this interesting.  We might want to work
> next year to make Ada9x the language of the year!
> 
> jim
> 
> 
> 
> In PC week the Year in Review under section "Biggest Letdowns of the Year"
> 
> The C++ Programming Language
> 
> "With syntax so chaotic that even compilers have to guess at it, 
> C++ code had better be reusable, because no one will ever want 
> to reverse-engineer it.  The programming language's 
> "feature" - being a superset of C- is a fundamental bug.  
> With numerous large projects being written in already obsolete 
> dialects, C++ is arguably an "instant legacy" language."
> 
> 
> Oh I can't resist ;-)
>

[Mac stuf deleted due to proprietary nature, self indulgent high pricing, 
and aggressive litigation to supress independent development of Mac 
developer tools and enviroments.]

	(I couldn't resist either :-)

In the same issue Peter Coffee writes in his column... 
(page 34)


"    In this column that bridges one year into another, I'm supposed
to take the big risk of predicting what 1995 will hold.
     I predict that developers will tire of "Guess what this does?" and
move toward langauges that don't hide their code's true intentions.
In corporate environments, these will be Object COBOL, Smalltalk,
and Ada 95.  No longer Ada 9x, Ada 95 will soon be the first ISO
standard object-oriented language.  Check it out."


Maybe '95 _REALLY_ will be the year Ada breaks free.

Dave.
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