sergio masci wrote:

> 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?

Borland C++... [cough]...

Well, I can (thankfully) say I haven't been required to code in C++ now 
for almost ten years and the last time I did, it was a CGI application 
(yeah, C++ is a HORRIBLE choice for CGI) in Borland's flavor of C++.

Gives me a headache just thinking about it.  40,000 lines of spaghetti 
code I inherited from a Canadian guy who used a code generator to do his 
work for him.   UGGGGH.

I fixed the bugs, and later another developer got permission to 
re-factor (the currently acceptable term for re-write) the code -- which 
we didn't have time to do during the whirlwind maintenance release I had 
to get out the door because it simply didn't work right.

(Even better, it was timezone issues that were blowing up in it... oh 
joyful joyful, badly written C++ and a coder who didn't understand how 
to handle Daylight Savings Time... at all.  Gotta love code maintenance!)

The next engineer who had a month to work on it, got it down to 10 
function calls and 10,000 lines of code.  Wow, that was a mess.

So here's hoping Borland C++ used as a language to code binary CGI 
programs for OS/2 and Sybase SQL Anywhere as the DB backend is dead dead 
dead.  ;-)

Nate
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