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Joost Kremers wrote:

> Franz M. Sauerzopf wrote:
>> C++ has its drawbacks like so many programming languages, but its success
>> did not come by chance.
>
> yeah, like MS's success did not come by chance...
>
> the sheer fact that something is popular doesn't mean it's good. in fact,
> if there's any correlation between popularity and quality, it's usually
> the other way around...

Depends on what you're measuring as a mark of quality. MS's success was
based on other thing than its code quality, easy access for developers for
example.

C++ has the advantage of being backwards compatible with C, so developers
didn't have to rewrite all their code just to take advantage of C++'s new
features. Think about it, if you had the choice of either spending a huge
amount of time and money to switch to a new, technically better system, or
spend virtually no time/money to switch to a system that offers equivalent
functionality, you'd pretty much be forced to pick the latter.

Blumf

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