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I don't have a source, but from what I remember, Microsoft was the main factor that pushed C++ into the mainstream. Same with Google and Python. I guess that's
by pikachu_is_cool 10y ago
I don't have a source, but from what I remember, Microsoft was the main factor that pushed C++ into the mainstream. Same with Google and Python. I guess that's up for debate though. Feel free to correct me.
- pjmlp 10y agoI wonder why people keep pushing this, Microsoft was the last C vendor to support C++ on MS-DOS. Even on Windows, all the C++ alternatives were way better until they released the 32 bit version of Visual C++.
- groovy2shoes 10y agoYep. The way I remember it is that until MSVC 6, everyone was still using Borland or Watcom tools. Even up until the early 2000s, Borland C++ Builder was giving MSVC a run for the money. There was also a plethora of quality but smaller-marketshare tools like the Digital Mars stuff. The real reasons C++ "beat" Obj-C have more to do with a) AT&T aggressively marketing C++ for at least 6 years before NeXT showed up on the scene, b) C++ being a little older then Obj-C in the first place, and c) Obj-C offering all the expressiveness of C with all the efficiency of Smalltalk (thank you, James Iry).
- pjmlp 10y agoAlso other things that came to mind, CORBA on UNIX, Apple's move from Object Pascal to C++, and the whole Taligent project that ended up nowhere.