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It's quite evident that Microsoft was pushing C++, their tooling from that time was certainly focused on it, most prominently MFC I think. Plus they never bothe
by fhd2 13y ago
It's quite evident that Microsoft was pushing C++, their tooling from that time was certainly focused on it, most prominently MFC I think. Plus they never bothered to support C99 in MSVC, literally forcing people towards C++.
Wasn't aware of anyone pushing C++ outside the Windows world, but I don't think it weakens my point.
- pjmlp 13y agoApple switched from Object Pascal to C++ with the Power Plant framework. Borland had Turbo Vision for C++ in MS-DOS, Object Windows Library for Borland C++ and Visual Component Library for C++ Builder. During MS-DOS days, Microsoft didn't had any C++ framework. On the UNIX world, some people were using OpenInventor for 3D visualization, CORBA for enterprise communication, portable frameworks like Rogue Wave Tools.h++, or GUI related XVT-Power++, DiaViews++. UNIX also has the birth place of C++ persistent databases like POET. There was also the Taligent project from IBM and Apple going on. IBM had SOM on OS/2. Psion Epoch used C++ alongside OPL. I can provide many more examples. Microsoft was hardly the only responsible company for C++'s adoption.