Re: C++ equivalent to spaghetti code

[Alf P. Steinbach]

* Alf P. Steinbach:
> * James Kanze:
> > C was never really a good general purpose language.  It was
> > never used (nor even usable) in commercial software, for
> > example.
>
> I'm not sure that statement is valid.
>
> It would be very surprising, to say the least, if no or just a very few 
> commercial applications were written in C.
>
> A quick Google search did not, however, help me find commercial software 
> written in any specific language (yes, I'm aware of Bjarne's old list 
> for C++).

Oh, sorry, I've been on a medium large C project for client, this was late 90's, 
and I think that qualifies as commercial software. It was mainly C, but also 
some Cobol and SQL and stuff. It was a mess, years over deadline (I don't know 
how they convinced the client to continue), using a GUI framework the company 
had developed years back, in C. I recall the project leader being a bit angry 
with me when I cautioned against trying to sell in another project based on same 
technology. It seems to me that people advance to leadership positions based 
solely on lack of ethical circuits.


Cheers,

- Alf

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