On Mon, 21 Jul 2008 20:34:02 +0000, Richard Heathfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > >> Willem <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> >>> 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. >> >> I don't think that's what James meant. I think when he said "commercial >> application", he really meant "business data processing application". C >> really *isn't* well suited to most BDP applications, so his statement is >> much more reasonable when interpreted that way. > >Whether you have interpreted him correctly is not for me to say, but what I >am in a position to say is that I've written plenty of "BDP" applications >in C, and I found it a very suitable language for the purpose. That is not >to say that there are no other such languages, of course, but it's one of >the better ones. I've used quite a few languages for "BDP", and I'd rank C >in the top two of those few. Whether I'd place it first or second is a >tough call. (C++ ranks a close third in my estimation.) But, Richard, you place C first or second in all applications. :-) > >> But I still suspect >> that there are at least a few BDP applications written in C nonetheless. > >Loads. Absolutely loads. > >-- >Richard Heathfield <http://www.cpax.org.uk> >Email: -http://www. +rjh@ >Google users: <http://www.cpax.org.uk/prg/writings/googly.php> >"Usenet is a strange place" - dmr 29 July 1999 Richard Harter, [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://home.tiac.net/~cri, http://www.varinoma.com Save the Earth now!! It's the only planet with chocolate. _______________________________________________ gnu-misc-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-misc-discuss
