re-writing college books [was: Re: A banner year for software bugs | Tech News on ZDNet]

[crispin at novell.com (Crispin Cowan)]

David Crocker wrote:
> Unfortunately, there are at least two situations in which C++ is a more suitable
> alternative to Java and C#:
>
> - Where performance is critical. Run time of C# code (using the faster .NET 2.0
> runtime) can be as much as double the run time of a C++ version of the same
> algorithm. Try telling a large company that it must double the size of its
> compute farms so you can switch to a "better" programming language!
>
> - In hard real-time applications where garbage collection pauses cannot be
> tolerated.
>   
Except that in both of those cases, C++ is not appropriate either. That
is a case for C.

Crispin

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