java, x-code and other goodies

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cfleck

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so i'm guessing that some of you have seen the "is java dying" article over at http://www.newsfactor.com/perl/story/22216.html

in various discussion groups (osnews, slashdot) i keep hearing people talk about how sun refuses to turn their code over to a standard committee, blah blah blah. what are they talking about? i'm a relatively young pup so i have to ask, how did c/c++ get its "recognition"? wasn't it developed by att or something?

anyway, java - standards, discuss....

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so this x-code stuff looks pretty cool. does this ship with the new g5s or is it waiting around for 10.3? anyway, i'm wondering, it uses the gcc stuff i believe so what are the odds that ibm makes available some compilers and those can be plugged in? also its my understanding that it only supports a few select programming languages. i hear that visual studio allows people to write extensions to allow them to write code for whatever language they want. will x-code allow this?
 
Apple's Developer's Tools ship with every copy of OS X. Xcode will be part of Panther's DT's.

As for Java/C(++), I think the C languages became so popular because they are very powerful and flexible. Despite the idiosyncracies of programming in C and C++, both are excellent languages for making powerful games, document-based applications, and everything else under the Sun.

C wasn't developed by AT&T, if that's what you're asking. I don't remember the guy's name, but he called it "C" because it was the successor to "B."
 
As for the origins of C, have a look at this page:
http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/who/dmr/chist.html

This is what the author says about the name:
"I felt that it deserved a new name; NB seemed insufficiently distinctive. I decided to follow the single-letter style and called it C, leaving open the question whether the name represented a progression through the alphabet or through the letters in BCPL. "

Comment: 'NB' means "New B".
 
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