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In article <rmartin.714926059@thor> rmartin@thor.Rational.COM (Bob Martin)  
writes:
> But, with a few notable exceptions, the industry is putting its muscle
> behind C++.  

Don't forget that C++ came from "The people that brought you UNIX,"
ATT. Objective C came to you from Stepstone.

I'd bet that ATT had a little more influence than Stepstone in
the marketplace, and as a result, C++ became "standard" (in quotes
because the standard C++ isn't quite ready).

> I know why I, and a few of my friends and associates made that choice;
> but I can't speak for the whole industry.  We wanted formality because
> we were tired of fighting the maintenance nightmares caused by the
> casual nature of C.  We wanted the compiler to lay down strong typing
> rules, const rules, rules about instantiating abstract classes, rules
> about downcasting and upcasting.  We wanted our programs to be

Isn't ANSI C pretty strong about this? I know gcc2.2.2 drives me
WILD with warnings :-). And Objective C (well, NeXT's anyway)
is ANSI.

- db