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_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,1116ece181be1aea X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-09-07 16:32:00 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.fjserv.net!proxad.net!fr.ip.ndsoftware.net!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!hse-mtl-ppp75387.qc.sympatico.CA!not-for-mail From: Christopher Browne Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Is the Writing on the Wall for Ada? Date: 7 Sep 2003 23:31:59 GMT Organization: cbbrowne Computing Inc Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: hse-mtl-ppp75387.qc.sympatico.ca (64.229.212.148) X-Trace: news.uni-berlin.de 1062977519 19447331 64.229.212.148 (16 [125932]) X-Draft-From: ("nntp+wolfe:comp.lang.ada" 216) X-message-flag: Outlook is rather hackable, isn't it? X-Home-Page: http://www.cbbrowne.com/info/ X-Affero: http://svcs.affero.net/rm.php?r=cbbrowne Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:42252 Date: 2003-09-07T23:31:59+00:00 List-Id: In an attempt to throw the authorities off his trail, chris transmitted: > Robert C. Leif wrote: >> This is very interesting because the C language market will eventually go to >> C#. > > Why? That's what they said about Cpp and Java. It hasn't happened > yet. And C# is constrained to the M$ platform for the moment. I > haven't heard of anyone seriously considering developing apps in C# > for Linux, nor Unix. That would be interesting. Actually, C# _isn't_ so constrained. There are about three implementations for other platforms; the most mature being MONO. I have run sample C# programs, at least, on Linux. That's a far cry from either: - MONO being a total replacement for .NET; - C# becoming a popular software implementation language on Linux or *BSD. Mind you, _none_ of that is useful in arguing for the impending disappearance of C. What _would_ be useful arguments would be: - That OS kernels were being implemented in C#. Note that neither C#, Java, nor even C++ are heavily used in that regard. C is still pretty much "king." - That vital libraries were being implemented in [something other than C]. "Don't use C; In my opinion, C is a library programming language not an app programming language." -- Owen Taylor (GTK+ and ORBit developer) -- let name="cbbrowne" and tld="acm.org" in name ^ "@" ^ tld;; http://www3.sympatico.ca/cbbrowne/x.html "A man without religion is like a fish without a bicycle." -- Bertrand Russell