On Tue, 6 Dec 2005, Wouter van Ooijen wrote:

> > I don't doubt that this could be made to work but would it 
> > actually lure anybody away from C?
> 
> C is both the blessing and the curse of today's embedded programmer! And
> to add to the curse there is C++, which could have been a wonderful
> language if it wasn't designed to be (almost) compatible with C. But if
> it wasn't designed that way it probably would not exist today.
> 

I don't know. I wounder how much M$ Visual C++ and the availability of GNU 
C++ has had an impact on it's uptake. Think about it, what share of the 
C++ market do the other C++ compilers have? Where is Borland C++ now 
compared to where it used to be?

Regards
Sergio Masci

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