Re: C++ and Middleware

From: Ben Hutchings (do-not-spam-benh_at_bwsint.com)
Date: 04/22/04 

Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2004 16:29:40 +0000 (UTC)

David Eng wrote:
> Finally, the C++ standard committee realizes the importance of
> middleware and distributed computing. The committee now focus on C++
> extensions for ISO CLI, the Microsoft middleware platform.

C++/CLI is largely a Microsoft initiative and is being standardised by
a committee within ECMA (TC39/TG5), not the ISO and ANSI committees
that produce C++ standards (JTC1/SC22/WG21 and INCITS J16
respectively). Some members of the latter committees have been able
to get involved in TG5 but not in an official capacity; furthermore as
guests (not members) of ECMA they are not able to vote on the
standard.

> Sadly, they chose the wrong middleware platform. Microsoft has
> notorious application software.

Whether that's true or not, how is it relevant to .NET and the CLI?

> They never produce a true enterprise level software. Most of their
> software products target small companies. However, the strength of
> C++ is it can build mission critical systems which are widely used
> in such industries like telecom, financial, transport, medical, and
> military industries. These systems never can run on Windows
> operating system.

Yet many such systems *do* run Windows. While I am no fan of Windows
and I don't think it is very reliable, what you're saying comes across
as dogmatic Microsoft-bashing. How about a rational technical
argument?

> So, why the committee has to embrace Microsoft which never treats
> C++ as a first class language?

It hasn't.

(I can't comment on the merits of CORBA as I know little about it.)

<snip>
> The popularity and growth of C++ is declining. If C++ community
> doesn't accept the trend of distributed computing and integrates C++
> with a middleware platform, C++ will degrade into a third class
> language suitable only for a limited application.

And there was me thinking C++ was a great systems programming language
that could work with any middleware or indeed be used to build it.
Apparently it has to be restricted to just one such platform. How
silly of me!

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