Re: maturity of the c++ compiler technology

ian@five-d.com (Ian Kemmish)
6 Oct 1999 02:03:36 -0400

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From: ian@five-d.com (Ian Kemmish)
Newsgroups: comp.compilers
Date: 6 Oct 1999 02:03:36 -0400
Organization: At home with Ian
References: 99-10-023
Keywords: C++, practice

Vincenzo.DeFlorio@esat.kuleuven.ac.be says...
>C++ exists since 1984 or so, but the c++ compiler technology has just
>recently reached a mature and reliable status....


As a consumer of C compilers (although many have advertised themselves
as C/C++ compilers), I noticed that they got pretty good in the early
90's - until Java became big. My casual explanation for this is that
all the good people left to write Java compilers. Whosever law it is
about people being promoted to their own level of incompetence
asserted itself, as the second division employees got promoted to
being in charge of the C compilers, and the next release of many
compilers (and especially optimisers) got pretty flakey....


But then, I'm a natural cynic:-)


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