That would Not be good. A quick look at TAO's website...
TAO intent "intent is a binary portable platform, independent of programming language, operating system and processor, so the content, which can be written in C, C++,"...
Developers with vast experience in C/C++, but little knowledge of intent, would be wise to first prototype your application in C/C++, then later if needed optimise it for VP asm.
Not bad at all, I think. My impression of the statements above that Tao have made is such that people don't fear that they have to program in VP in order to program in intent - they can get along quite happily in C or C++ if they so desire.
Myself, I program in intent in a mixture of VP assembly and Java. I have no desire to use C or C++ on the platform. VP is quite a nice assembly language, especially with all the standard and very handy macros.
Anything written in VP can easily be accessed by programs written in C/C++ anyway, so there's no issue there, either.
