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Subject: Re: The days of C++ are numbered . . . .

Author: Dann Corbit

Date: 15:37:05 12/19/05

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On December 17, 2005 at 23:50:48, Zappa wrote:

>It's really that simple.  No one wants to deal with buffer overflows and memory
>corruption and all the bitchwork of C so that your program runs in 0.01 seconds
>rather than 0.1 seconds.

Languages never die.
Most of the lines of code in the world are written in COBOL.  That's today.

BASIC is still here.

Fortran is still here.

C and C++ won't die or go away.

Ironically, the warnings issued that raised the controversy have to do with
functions designed to fix the overrun bugs.



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