Language Niches (long)

[Paul Prescod]

Rich Holm wrote:
> 
>...
> 
> I don't want to start a flame fest, but...
> 
> Where did you hear this?  It was Borland that popularized the C++
> on Windows paradym.  Microsoft was WAS behind the curve at the time.
> The Borland class libraries were/are vastly superior to MFC.  Too
> bad they lost out in the end.

My impression was that C++ was a relatively unimportant language
(relative to C) until Microsoft adopted it. That gave it a huge boost
and essentially forced most C programmers to become C++ programmers.

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