ATL Student, Acutally your answer can be found from Wrox's ATL COM Programmer's reference by Richard Grimes on page 31. ;)

I cannot see why C++ is more superier than other languages! It's only because C++ is chosen to be a de facto standard in Unix world and such is a histrorical facts! Languages are just some way to express the flow of logic and model the system's architecture. It has important thing to express such elements and idea in a clean and self document way. Whether it is Java, Basic, Pascal ,C++ and SmallTalk, they are just similar way to express the programming logic. What really make they appear so different are how vendors implement them. Say, Microsoft decided not to included Pointer in Visual Basic's implementation because they target VB as a RAD tools for common programmers, it don't relate to the laguage itself. If for some days, Micosoft change it's idea, they can add into it in any time! Like VB.NET, they decide to add Threading and OO into the language. When we talk about C#, I do not see much different from Java if we look at it's language syntax. When we compare these two languages, we target how Sun and Micosoft implements their languages, how much feature they add into the langauges, how good the performance they provided us for the Runtime engine (compare the .NET ILE runtime and Java VM), how stable for the development and runtime environment. Remember the previous survey - Does programmers know more than one languages better? My answer is yes! At least they truely understand language is just language, there are more things in software development! Here I want to post one question - Does people speak English are better Mathematican than people speak German?

Agreed! I have unfortunely work for quit a number of platforms before and included AS/400, S/36, Novell, Unix and Windows NT. Every vendors try to claim they are the best! As a poor developer, how do face such facts and especially decision always put on hands of other people and they usually do not have enough technical knowledge to do the judgement. When I used RPG/400, IBM people told me it is the fastest and most reliable machine in the world! Fast and reliable? Maybe, but anyone think about it - every parts include hardware, os, database (DB2/400) and language is coming from one single company! They have totally control on it, want to complaint lacking of feature of RPG and poor performance of SQL accessing ? No way, waiting for next release (usually still do not have your long waiting feature)! Why SUN do not want to 100% open Java's language controling rights? All of us know the fact! Only competition is the truth on comercial world and is the only health way to let company to improve their product! I enjoy programming with Microsoft products but I also like Borland's Delphi. What do you think how IBM price their dead OS/2 product is Windows and Windows NT never came out? ;P ;P