On Jul 20, 1:51 pm, Richard Heathfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > James Kanze said:
> <snip> > > C was never really a good general purpose language. It was > > never used (nor even usable) in commercial software, for > > example. > So MS Windows is not commercial software? Interesting. Yes. Commercial can be used in several senses (and I'm not sure of the usual English usage here). There's a lot of software written in C that is commercial in the sense that it is sold (i.e. commercial as opposed to free software). What I was talking about, however, was the application domain. You can't really do accounting in C, for example, because it has neither a built in decimal type (like Cobol), nor operator overloading on user defined types (like C++). More generally, C is pretty bad for text handling as well. Of course, a lot of early Unix systems only had C, and between C and assembler, you used C, even if it wasn't the ideal language for the job. (Although the old X/Open group did try to standardize a Cobol dialect for Unix.) -- James Kanze (GABI Software) email:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Conseils en informatique orientée objet/ Beratung in objektorientierter Datenverarbeitung 9 place Sémard, 78210 St.-Cyr-l'École, France, +33 (0)1 30 23 00 34 _______________________________________________ gnu-misc-discuss mailing list gnu-misc-discuss@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-misc-discuss