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From: dlmiller@inetdirect.net (Doug & Rose Miller)
Subject: Re: C is 'better' than Ada because...
Date: 1996/08/11
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Craig Franck <clfranck@worldnet.att.net> wrote:
+Richard Riehle <rriehle@nunic.nu.edu> wrote:
+
+>  C++ and C are probably fine for certain classes of problems, but they
+>  are certainly archaic when compared to the progress being made in
+>  the world of programming languages. And I do not refer only to Ada in
+>  that last sentence.  Eiffel also comes to mind as a preferred
+>  alternative to C++.
+
+
+I agree with that, if you include PC programming as "a certain class of
+problems". Most PC OS's are written in C/C++. It makes sense that
+applications would then be coded in C/C++ as well.

This is absolute nonsense. IBM mainframe operating systems are (or at
least were, during the time I worked with them) written in assembly language;
by this "reasoning,"  application programming on IBM mainframes should
therefore also be done in assembly language.

What possible connection is there between the language used to write an
OS, and the language in which the applications which run under it are written?