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From: "J. Clarke" <jclarke.usenet@cox.net>
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Subject: Re: Why is Ada considered  "too specialized" for scientific use
Date: Wed, 07 Apr 2010 15:41:10 -0400
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On 4/7/2010 1:05 PM, Keith Thompson wrote:
> "J. Clarke"<jclarke.usenet@cox.net>  writes:
> [...]
>> Well Visual C++ 2008, which is the only "MS C" in current production,
>> most assuredly DOES implement a standards-compliant complex data type,
>> so I don't really understand the point of your complaint.
>
> This is off-topic, but ...
>
> I'm sure the C++ compiler implements C++'s complex type.  Does it
> support C99 complex types when invoked as a C compiler?  They're
> defined quite differently; they have to be, since standard C doesn't
> have operator overloading.
>
> Here's a test case, a complete translation unit that should compile
> without error with a conforming C99 compiler:
>
> double _Complex new;
>
> C and C++ are two different languages.

Precisely.  And Microsoft is not touting any of their current projects 
as a C compiler so why should they support C99?

Look, you have a choice, you can use C or you can use Microsoft 
compilers, but if you're expecting state of the art C from Microsoft 
you've come to the wrong shop.

I just don't understand what's so great about C that one MUST use it in 
preference to C++.