Re: Programming Language Productivity: The Stupidity of Programmers

From: Richard Heathfield (dontmail_at_address.co.uk.invalid)
Date: 11/12/03 

Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2003 04:19:23 +0000 (UTC)

[followups set to comp.programming]

Muzzlebreak wrote:

> Corey Murtagh <emonk@slingshot.co.nz.no.uce> wrote in
> news:1068578455.161929@radsrv1.tranzpeer.net:
>
>> Muzzlebreak wrote:
>> <snip>
>>> What I don't like is Microsoft, constantly EXTENDING the C language
>>> into oblivion. When C++ came out, I thought, "What is this crap?"

<snip>

>>
>> Uh... Microsoft isn't even vaguely responsible for C++. They produced
>> a compiler for it, but the language itself evolved completely outside
>> their control.
>>
<snip>
>
> Yes, but when C++ first appeared, Microsoft's had the biggest libraries,

C++ first appeared (under that name) in 1983. I don't recall Microsoft
producing a C++ compiler until around 1992 or 1993. They certainly weren't
the first to produce an MS-DOS implementation of C++, let alone a Unix
version. 

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