From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,a850d20bfa8f3a85 X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII Received: by 10.68.73.229 with SMTP id o5mr16807373pbv.7.1326288128052; Wed, 11 Jan 2012 05:22:08 -0800 (PST) Path: lh20ni167394pbb.0!nntp.google.com!news1.google.com!news4.google.com!proxad.net!feeder1-2.proxad.net!usenet-fr.net!gegeweb.org!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: C++ on the Down Slope? Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2012 14:21:42 +0100 Organization: cbb software GmbH Message-ID: <7to1rv15a9dg.farozvthmszw$.dlg@40tude.net> References: <1kdog45.122iy7ikvhb9zN%csampson@inetworld.net> <1zpdlrlos3n8.vwyynkgg661c.dlg@40tude.net> <6066d344-1a62-4723-92ed-2b020fafa003@z1g2000vbx.googlegroups.com> <2a5a6067-6d68-4c6a-9d22-90a1d7b6a4c9@o12g2000vbd.googlegroups.com> Reply-To: mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de NNTP-Posting-Host: FbOMkhMtVLVmu7IwBnt1tw.user.speranza.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: 40tude_Dialog/2.0.15.1 X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Date: 2012-01-11T14:21:42+01:00 List-Id: On Wed, 11 Jan 2012 03:50:43 -0800 (PST), Martin wrote: > On Jan 11, 10:29�am, "Dmitry A. Kazakov" > wrote: >> On Wed, 11 Jan 2012 00:50:14 -0800 (PST), Martin wrote: >>> On Jan 11, 8:24 am, "Dmitry A. Kazakov" >>> wrote: >>>> On Tue, 10 Jan 2012 23:08:12 -0800, Charles H. Sampson wrote: >>>>> According to a recent email from LinkedIn, 488,992 people have "C++ >>>>> skills" and this is an 8% decrease since last year. >> >>>> One probably should count C, C++, C#, D(?) together. >> >>> Never understood the inclusion of C# as a member of the 'C/C++' >>> family...besides the "{" & "}" syntax, the semantics seems rather >>> different... >> >> The crowd choosing C# now would likely chose C++ before. Both respond to >> the same attitude to programming. > > Maybe...but there are those that moved from C->Java but you wouldn't > include them and it have curly-brackets and seems more similar to C# > than C++... I think that Java was different. It was never thought as a general purpose language. Would-be-C people were rather opposed to it. C# managed to gain a wider acceptance among them. > C/C++/Objective-C - I can see why they get grouped. C/C++/C# - I just > can't... I group people, not languages. If you miraculously removed C++, they would not run for Ada. If they are running from C++ now, then it is for something worse than C++. C++ had some brighter concepts, which is why it never managed to push C aside. There is no decline of C, I suppose. -- Regards, Dmitry A. Kazakov http://www.dmitry-kazakov.de