From -5415818391113562537 X-Google-Thread: f78e5,6294651cbc4b105c X-Google-Attributes: gidf78e5,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsread.com!news-xfer.newsread.com!nntp.abs.net!news-FFM2.ecrc.net!newsfeed.vmunix.org!peer-uk.news.demon.net!kibo.news.demon.net!news.demon.co.uk!demon!stump.algebra.com!devnull From: chris@phaedsys.org (Chris Hills) Newsgroups: comp.std.c++ Subject: Re: C++ standard life cycle Date: Sat, 27 Aug 2005 22:17:11 GMT Organization: Phaedrus Systems Lines: 39 Sender: mail2news@demon.net Approved: fjh@cs.mu.oz.au (Fergus Henderson , moderator of comp.std.c++) Message-ID: References: <1124962740.444680.27940@g47g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: news.news.demon.net Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Trace: news.demon.co.uk 1125181038 2910 158.152.254.254 (27 Aug 2005 22:17:18 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@demon.net NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 27 Aug 2005 22:17:18 +0000 (UTC) X-Robomod: STUMP, ichudov@algebra.com (Igor Chudov) X-Greylisting: NO DELAY (Relay+Sender autoqualified); processed by UCSD_GL-v2.1 on mailbox8.ucsd.edu; Sat, 27 August 2005 14:21:10 -0700 (PDT) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at cs.mu.OZ.AU X-Reply-To: Chris Hills X-Received: (from fjh@localhost) by mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU (8.12.10+Sun/8.12.9/Submit) id j7RMHBhg009472; Sun, 28 Aug 2005 08:17:11 +1000 (EST) X-Path: comp-std-cpp-robomod!not-for-mail X-Delivered-To: std-c++@ucar.edu X-Spamscanner: mailbox8.ucsd.edu (v1.6 Aug 4 2005 15:27:38, 0.0/5.0 3.0.4) X-Authentication-Warning: mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU: fjh set sender to devnull@stump.algebra.com using -f X-Newsreader: Turnpike Integrated Version 5.01 M <7y9ouFdz6gbBVVTek6rkWKl0do> X-Newsgroups: comp.std.c++ X-MailScanner: PASSED (v1.2.8 53168 j7RLL9Np060621 mailbox8.ucsd.edu) Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.std.c++:1956 In article <1124962740.444680.27940@g47g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>, kanze@gabi-soft.fr writes > >The case of C is an interesting one. There, too, I don't think >that there can be any doubt that the critical volume was >reached. If C dies, it will basically be because C++ has been >able to subsume it -- the C compatibility of C++ means that much >C code is almost C++ code, migrating it to C++ (and thus >reducing the effective volume) is affordable. So C could >conceivably be an exception to the above. C is interesting as it has a life of it's own, like (visual) Basic outside the ISO standardisation. There is a lot of work going on with it but mainly based around C90. In the embedded world they use C for the vast a majority (assembler comes next I think) and it is no way a sub set of C++. Actually it is usually "almost" C90 + some extensions. As for migrating it to C++. this is not possible as the most common platforms do not have C++ compilers or debug tools. C is not likely to die and is more likely to outlive C++. C based languages are used in ASICS and FPGA's as well. IT is the lowest level of high level language and thus makes sense for embedded work. -- \/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\ \/\/\/\/\ Chris Hills Staffs England /\/\/\/\/ /\/\/ chris@phaedsys.org www.phaedsys.org \/\/\ \/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/ --- [ comp.std.c++ is moderated. To submit articles, try just posting with ] [ your news-reader. If that fails, use mailto:std-c++@ncar.ucar.edu ] [ --- Please see the FAQ before posting. --- ] [ FAQ: http://www.jamesd.demon.co.uk/csc/faq.html ]