James Kanze wrote: ) 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.
In other words: There cannot be any commercial applicaiton written in C, because in your view it is not well suited to one or two application types you can think of. Your argument is fundamentally flawed in two entirely separate, both equally valid ways. - That it is not the most well suited does not imply that it is impossible that commercial software is written in it. - There are many more commercial application types than the few you mentioned. It may be that you're trolling though. It is a very nice blanket statement you made, one that will rile many people, and with a lot of wiggle room. SaSW, Willem -- Disclaimer: I am in no way responsible for any of the statements made in the above text. For all I know I might be drugged or something.. No I'm not paranoid. You all think I'm paranoid, don't you ! #EOT _______________________________________________ gnu-misc-discuss mailing list gnu-misc-discuss@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-misc-discuss