From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,c406e0c4a6eb74ed X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news1.google.com!news.glorb.com!news.zanker.org!newsfeed00.sul.t-online.de!newsmm00.sul.t-online.de!t-online.de!news.t-online.com!not-for-mail From: Martin Krischik Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: ADA Popularity Discussion Request Date: Sun, 12 Sep 2004 19:41:27 +0200 Organization: AdaCL Message-ID: <1153993.mxNGp3fqa3@linux1.krischik.com> References: <49dc98cf.0408110556.18ae7df@posting.google.com> <413e2fbd$0$30586$626a14ce@news.free.fr> <1371289.WCcgO7lass@linux1.krischik.com> <1094926196.802462@yasure> Reply-To: krischik@users.sourceforge.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit X-Trace: news.t-online.com 1095011259 06 4351 qS0eXN+lYatQee 040912 17:47:39 X-Complaints-To: usenet-abuse@t-online.de X-ID: TtLO-QZegeT0D78OHCdLeY7MMsffzhQPHwmuZko0Ai0wlNptutj1gH User-Agent: KNode/0.7.7 Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:3631 Date: 2004-09-12T19:41:27+02:00 List-Id: Georg Bauhaus wrote: > Benjamin Ketcham wrote: > : > : The fact that C99 has not caught on would seem to indicate that > : the market considers it *less* useful, not more! The de facto > : industry standard is "C90 plus the common extensions", and there it > : remains. I guess the C programmers didn't want their language to > : go down the path of the "RM". Or, they just don't see it as > : necessary (niche areas like numerical computation being exceptions). > > Maybe C99 is as yet unknown to many C programmers? True. I am the only person I know of who spend the $18 to actually buy the standart (both C and C++). I also not aware of anyone who own a pirate copy. I know of a company who has several hundreds of programmers who owns a fully licensed network copy of both the C and C++ standart accesable to everybody there. I have has contracts for 8 years with that company - I know of no one who read only one page of the any of the standarts. The hole mentality of C/C++ programmers is just different. They spend so much time with the a debugger they don't have time to read standards. With Regards Martin -- mailto://krischik@users.sourceforge.net http://www.ada.krischik.com