From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Mar 7 13:55:50 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mired.org (dsl-64-192-6-133.telocity.com [64.192.6.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 78F9E37B402 for ; Thu, 7 Mar 2002 13:55:37 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 93758 invoked by uid 100); 7 Mar 2002 21:55:37 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15495.57816.98439.143709@guru.mired.org> Date: Thu, 7 Mar 2002 15:55:36 -0600 To: Miguel Mendez Cc: Mike Meyer , freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, D J Hawkey Jr , bts@babbleon.org Subject: Re: C vs C++ In-Reply-To: <20020307095141.A2889@energyhq.homeip.net> References: <20020305164731.530B5BA03_i8k.babbleon.org@ns.sol.net> <200203061219.g26CJEJ61813@sheol.localdomain> <20020306191709.A55297@dragon.nuxi.com> <15494.57538.888210.658115@guru.mired.org> <20020307095141.A2889@energyhq.homeip.net> X-Mailer: VM 6.90 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ From: "Mike Meyer" X-Delivery-Agent: TMDA/0.48 (Python 2.2 on freebsd4) 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 Miguel Mendez types: > On Wed, Mar 06, 2002 at 09:38:42PM -0600, Mike Meyer wrote: > > That is true. C++ is as ugly as C, but has all the problems of Object > > Orient Languages. > What are you smoking? :-) No language in this world fits OS development > better than C. IMHO is one of the most beautiful languages ever created. > It's simple, small and efficient. And it requires you to know what you > are doing, but I consider that a feature. C resembles assembler on many > of it's constructs. C makes a good portable assembler, and that's what I use it for. That makes it nearly OS development and systems level applications work. In other domains, this can be a serious problem. The only real problem with C is the type decleration syntax. C is the only language I've ever run into that someone - and someone bright, at that - felt the need to write a tool for explaining what a variable declaration meant, or one to translate from english to the language in question. http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message