On Jul 20, 10:50 am, "Alf P. Steinbach" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> * James Kanze:
> > C was never really a good general purpose language. It was
> > never used (nor even usable) in commercial software, for
> > example.
> I'm not sure that statement is valid.
> It would be very surprising, to say the least, if no or just a
> very few commercial applications were written in C.
There are certainly a few. Way back when, however, the X/Open
group proposed standardizing a form of Cobol (under Unix!)
because C was felt to be unusable for business applications.
At least certain types of business applications require some
sort of decimal type. If the language doesn't have it built in
(as Cobol and PL-1 did), and it doesn't have operator
overloading, expressions quickly become unreadable. For those
applications, at least, if the language doesn't have a built-in
decimal type, and it doesn't have operator overloading, then
it's really unusable for those applications (although you'll
doubtlessly find some masocists doing it).
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