Re: Usage of C++ NULL vs 0
On Jul 29, 11:37 am, "Bo Persson" <b...@gmb.dk> wrote:
[...]
C++ is a pragmatic way of creating a powerful high level
language. It's inheritance is what made it take off.
It's its pragmatics (C compatibility, works with existing
linkers, etc.) which made it succeed. It certainly wasn't the
only (or even the first) language to propose inheritance.
I have used other languages like Simula, Modula-2/3, and Ada.
Quite nice for their time, but never really took of. Not even
with billions in fundings, like in the last case.
In the last case, the language probably didn't take of because
of the funding, or the source of the funding. I know of one or
two cases where Ada wasn't considered because it was backed by a
government burocracy.
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