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=1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_50,INVALID_DATE autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 10db24,e19df7326de95f42 X-Google-Attributes: gid10db24,public X-Google-Thread: 1014db,e19df7326de95f42 X-Google-Attributes: gid1014db,public X-Google-Thread: 109fba,e19df7326de95f42 X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,e19df7326de95f42 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1994-12-09 13:27:10 PST Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++,comp.edu Path: bga.com!news.sprintlink.net!pipex!uunet!psinntp!internet!meteor!netnews-nj!lliang From: lliang@genesis.usa (Larry Liang) Subject: Re: Why don't large companies use C/C++/OOP? In-Reply-To: Curtis Emerson's message of 8 Dec 1994 22:37:16 GMT Message-ID: Sender: news@meteor.sbi.com Organization: Salomon,Inc. References: <3c81qs$qj7@paperboy.gsfc.nasa.gov> Date: Fri, 9 Dec 1994 18:49:21 GMT Xref: bga.com comp.lang.ada:8467 comp.lang.c:34081 comp.lang.c++:40351 comp.edu:2391 Date: 1994-12-09T18:49:21+00:00 List-Id: In article <3c81qs$qj7@paperboy.gsfc.nasa.gov> Curtis Emerson writes: Untried and/or untrue? From The X Journal, November-December 1994, pg 6 (a very C/C++ oriented magazine from SIGS Pulications, which also publishes the C++ Report and Journal of OOP): Forrester Research in Cambridge Massachusetts surveyed MIS executives from 51 of the Fortune 1000 companies. Only 12% of the software staff were experienced in C programming, and only 3% in OOP. -- I haven't read the study, but probably only means that many companies are outsourcing their MIS software development or buying COTS. And those companies left which haven't gone those routes have a large mainframe legacy they are loathe to re-engineer. Would anyone who has actually read the report care to comment? Curtis It is very irresponsible to post a flame bait to multiple news groups in the name of more Ada acceptance. It only serves to annoy readers of other groups without any positive effects. Please don't drag other groups into the Ada flame fest. Larry Liang