Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!bloom-beacon!mit-eddie!rutgers!bellcore!faline!thumper!ulysses!andante!alice!bs From: bs@alice.UUCP (Bjarne Stroustrup) Newsgroups: comp.lang.smalltalk Subject: Re: OO debuggers Summary: C++ is not just a UNIX language Message-ID: <8218@alice.UUCP> Date: 20 Sep 88 01:34:33 GMT References: <37100002@pyr1.cs.ucl.ac.uk> <37100005@pyr1.cs.ucl.ac.uk> Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill NJ Lines: 20 I have now seen this remark flash by my scream a couple of times: > C++ has a lot of catching up to do, but it seems to be evolving strictly in > the incestuous C-Unix environment. and somebody even agrees: > Agreed. Sad isn't it? I'm not sure the C/UNIX environment is more ``incestuous'' than other environments, but even if it is the statement is flat wrong. C++ work - including work that will directly affect the language and the way it is used - is going on in other environments including the Mac, the PCclone world, and Smalltalk. Come on guys. C++ hasn't been generally available for 3 years yet. It hasn't even completed its planned growth in its native UNIX environment. How fast do you expect evolution to work?