I should have written a longer post.   I actually did think of excluding
commercial software, explicitly "Office"-type applications, but
figured everybody would know that I meant software developed for inhouse
use.  C++ is of course also widely used for non-GUI applications, my cousin
who works on medical devices uses it pretty much exclusively.

I hope you didn't infer that I was in any way denigrating C++, I liked it
very much when I was learning it and would have been happy to work in it
but very few companies write their in-house business apps in C++, and with
20+ years in accounting and finance before transitioning to programming,
business apps were clearly the best fit for me.  The one scenario I
personally know of where a company would typically write their in-house
business apps in C++ would be back-end stuff for brokerage houses, but when
I was just starting I would never have been hired for that.  By now I have
the experience, but no more C++ chops.


I can tell you that the volume of stuff we (the IT dept at my company) are
expected to produce could never be accomplished in C++ (or Java, for that
matter) in the amount of time in which we are expected to produce it.  


> From: "Gregg N" 
> Ellen K wrote:
>> C++ really isn't usually used to make a GUI.
> That may be true for rapidly developed in-house applications, but for
> commercial applications I think it's a ridiculous assertion.
> I believe Word and Excel are written in C++ (supported, but not proven, by
> the fact that both of these load msvcrt.dll when they start up). The Mozilla
> family of web browsers and email clients are written in C++ (they are open
> source). I think IE is written in C++ as well.
> In fact I would go as far as saying that most high-volume commercial quality
> GUI applications released in the past five years are written in C++. But
> that is just a hunch.
> Gregg

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