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FWIW, a common argument in favour of C and C++ is how it is used by pretty much everything that one runs on a computer, in exactly the same sense of "use". I th
by dbaupp 10y ago
FWIW, a common argument in favour of C and C++ is how it is used by pretty much everything that one runs on a computer, in exactly the same sense of "use". I think you're tilting at windmills: some people mean "use" to mean "ship" and others "write", and neither are that unreasonable.
- lossolo 10y agoI wasn't the first one that made that claim. And I don't know the author of the comment that made it and I am not involved with anything that author do - something you can't say yourself in context of person you are defending. I've asked couple of people about that question without suggesting the answer and all of them agree with interpretation that it's about writing software in language A, not using third party tools written in language A. Example of usage outside of company like in question from arstechnica: "Outside of Google, companies like Wrike, Workiva, Blossom and others have also been using Dart to develop their products, so there is definitely still a Dart user community outside of Google, too." This is how everyone interpret that question.