From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Mar 5 16:55:51 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from gull.prod.itd.earthlink.net (gull.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.84]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C16F437B405 for ; Tue, 5 Mar 2002 16:55:47 -0800 (PST) Received: from pool0228.cvx40-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net ([216.244.42.228] helo=mindspring.com) by gull.prod.itd.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 16iPiC-0002Q6-00; Tue, 05 Mar 2002 16:55:21 -0800 Message-ID: <3C8568E0.76415D99@mindspring.com> Date: Tue, 05 Mar 2002 16:54:56 -0800 From: Terry Lambert X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en]C-CCK-MCD {Sony} (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Giorgos Keramidas Cc: "Steve B." , freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: C vs C++ References: <20020305132457.A4700-100000@alpha.yumyumyum.org> <001701c1c481$d0d5eab0$f642d9cf@DROID> <20020305231252.GC5328@hades.hell.gr> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > The steeper learning curve of C++ is indeed steeper, not because of > some magic property of the object-oriented programming paradigm, but > because there are a lot more things to learn, before a complete > program can be written, IMHO. Uh... "Hello World" looks the same in ANSI C and C++, unless you insist on using I/O streams and "cout", which no one ever really does, unless they are writing a C++ book or trying to impress a student. -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message