Re: Java Risks (Was: Ada News Brief - 96-05-24

[wbrooks@lwaxana.acs.calpoly.edu (Bill Brooks)]

In article <31B2B06A.43FE@lmtas.lmco.com>,
Ken Garlington  <garlingtonke@lmtas.lmco.com> wrote:
>Brian N. Miller wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> A disbelieve that C++ is evolving awkwardly.  Is there a publication
>> which claims so?  Or is this 2-bit usenet opinion?  ;')
>
>See Plauger's comments in Embedded Systems Programming, for example.
>(I'm not sure why an opinion in a publication is necessarily better
>than one on the Internet, but nonetheless, there it is...)
>
 
I too tend to disbelieve claims that C++ is evolving awkwardly, but
anyone who hasn't seen the <em> reams</em> of material published on
this topic must be living under a rock! The number of articles on the
error-proness of C++ exception handling alone could supply all the
material for a graduate level seminar. 

Start out with: <quote>The Evolution of C++: Language Design in the
Marketplace of Ideas</quote>, 1993, edited by Jim Waldo, which traces
the history of C++ from USENIX conferences to today's most popular
OOPL.  Waldo concludes that the language at one point had a clear
design center, but that it doesn't now.


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