Willem <wil...@stack.nlwrote:
In other words: There cannot be any commercial applicaiton
written in C, because in your view it is not well suited to
one or two application types you can think of.
I don't think that's what James meant. I think when he saidExactly. And obviously, you can do it; I know one person who
"commercial application", he really meant "business data
processing application". C really *isn't* well suited to most
BDP applications, so his statement is much more reasonable
when interpreted that way. But I still suspect that there are
at least a few BDP applications written in C nonetheless.
wrote relational data base code in assembler. But C isn't
really appropriate; there are almost always better alternatives.
C doesn't have any support for decimal arithmetic, nor any means
of adding it comfortably.
But I'd forgotten that today, "commercial" generally means the
opposite of "open source", or "free", and doesn't refer to the
application domain. I should have been clearer.
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