hand C++ is not high level enough for
> some tasks such as web programming,multithreading ...
Funny, I use it for that, with no problem. (Well, I'm not sure
what you consider web programming, but Firefox is written mainly
in C++. But maybe you don't consider that web pro
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
On Jul 20, 1:51 pm, Richard Heathfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> James Kanze said:
>
> > 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 comme
atives.
C doesn't have any support for decimal arithmetic, nor any means
of adding it comfortably.
But I'd forgotten that today, "commercial" generally means the
opposite of "open source", or "free", and doesn't refer to the
application domain. I sho
On Jul 22, 7:21 pm, Ben Pfaff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> James Kanze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > C doesn't have any support for decimal arithmetic, nor any means
> > of adding it comfortably.
> http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/open/n4060.pdf
Yes, I&#x
