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From: Robert Dewar <robert_dewar@my-deja.com>
Subject: Re: Desirability of C++
Date: 2000/05/07
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In article <20000507071636.16841.00001779@ng-fz1.aol.com>,
  anthonygair@aol.comremoveme (ANTHONY GAIR) wrote:
>
> It could be said that the C++ standard died very quickly
indeed


Well anything could be said, but this claim is of course
ludicrous. C++ is alive and well and extensively used,
not as extensively as the really popular languages like
Visual Basic and COBOL, but C++ has a big and significant
slice of the market.

I have the horrible feeling that Anthony is coming from the
fantasy world where everyone is now programming in Java (I
must admit that several members of the faculty at NYU are
under the same illusion). Amazing how hype can vanquish
facts so easily in our field

Robert Dewar


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