Hello Neil!

Replying to a message of Neil Heller to Bo Simonsen:

 NH> 
 BS>> I was visiting IBM together with my school. A programmer 
 BS>> there said that they didn't even use C++, it was too 'new'.

 NH> It's more likely that IBM doesn't use C++ because they didn't develop 
 NH> it.  IBM has become widely known as as the prime implementer of the
 NH> NIH  (not invented here) philosophy.

I'm not sure where this all comes from.  I know we're limited (due to
performance reasons only) what parts of C++ we can use, but I can tell you
that the software project I work on could not be compiled with a C
compiler.

Darin
(who works for, but doesn't speak for, IBM)

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