Lan Barnes wrote:
And I will say again, C is a systems language, and a lovely one at that;
C++ is C that's been all fracked up; and it baffles me that people don't
develop more apps in scripting languages. Why make life harder for
yourself?
Well, as I pointed out, it's the "zero install" issue on Windows.
The IT staff simply will *not* allow anyone to install a non-corporate
approved language in their environment. I have seen this many times
from folks when they ask for something that results in 4 lines of regex
Perl from me. "Oh, I can't use Perl. It's not installed and I can't
possibly get permission for that. How can I use Java/C#?"
With the languages now targeting the CLR and JVM, that problem goes
away. The program "looks and smells" like the binary tools they all
use, so that passes IT muster.
Yeah, it's stupid. But it's reality.
I suspect that C++ is going to start to decline now that these languages
can sneak past the IT staff filter as bytecode.
-a
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