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From: jsa@alexandria (Jon S Anthony)
Subject: Re: What is wrong with OO ?
In-Reply-To: rmartin@oma.com's message of Fri, 03 Jan 1997 09:09:38 -0600
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In article <rmartin-0301970909390001@vh1-018.wwa.com> rmartin@oma.com (Robert C. Martin) writes:

> In article <JSA.97Jan2200948@alexandria>, jsa@alexandria (Jon S Anthony) wrote:
> 
> > In article <rmartin-0201971102070001@pool11-018.wwa.com> rmartin@oma.com
> (Robert C. Martin) writes:
> > 
> > > I think however, that there are several domains (e.g.
> > > hard real time systems) in which C++ will remain predominant.
> > 
> > Is there any truth to this????  I didn't think C++ was even much of a
> > player in this particular arena.  Certainly it is not as "dominant"
> > here as say C (or probably Ada for that matter).
> 
> Actually, I have several very large (i.e. Fortune 100) customers that are
> making 
> use of C++ in hard real time embedded systems for major projects.

OK - but does that fact alone somehow make it "dominant"???????
Doesn't seem like it to me, unless this "several" really means
"several tens of thousands of applications".  Is this true????

/Jon
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