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It blows my mind that in 2008 companies are moving toward C++.
by pchristensen 19y ago
It blows my mind that in 2008 companies are moving toward C++.
- mfp 19y ago... but they use OCaml to prove that there are no run-time errors (RTE) in their code :-) http://www.astree.ens.fr/ http://www.astree.ens.fr/ "In Nov. 2003, ASTRÉE was able to prove completely automatically the absence of any RTE in the primary flight control software of the Airbus A340 fly-by-wire system, a program of 132,000 lines of C. [...] From Jan. 2004 on, ASTRÉE was extended to analyze the electric flight control codes then in development and test for the A380 series."
- factor 19y agoGo&learn C++. It blows my mind how often people confuse C++ with "C with classes" in 2008. Granted, C++ isn't as sexy as OCaml, but it's still C plus some rather nice extentions that (finally) got trully portable and work as advertised. Powerful templates plus multiple inheritance give you a very impressive weapon to play with. C# and Java don't even come close. And please... 99% of software on Windows, Mac OS X and Linux are built using the same stuff: C/C++/ObjectiveC.
- newton_dave 19y agoI'm not sure I'd lump Objective-C in with C++ :/ C# and VB run an awful lot of Windows software, too.