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C++ was pretty immature for a large project in 1996. It was first standardized in 1998.
by TheCoelacanth 9y ago
C++ was pretty immature for a large project in 1996. It was first standardized in 1998.
- hfdgiutdryg 9y agoIt was already in wide use long before then. Microsoft's MFC was first released in 1992, and that was the Windows desktop library for years. Java was still new and slow. There were some interesting RAD tools, but those weren't particularly well suited to 'large' projects.
- rosser 9y agoI worked on a mega-LoC (millions of lines of code) C++ project in the late 90s. It wasn't even (to the extent I could honestly tell at that point in my career, anyway) a particularly hellish codebase or design, and suffered none of the madnesses described in The Fine Article. (Of course, we were sub-sub-contractors working only on designated parts of the application. The stuff I did touch was consistently sane enough, though, that I don't think I'm too out of place in positing a legit minimal degree of not-terribleness across the rest of the project.)