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Subject: Re: Why is not more FreeBSD software written in C++?
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Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote:

>Don Dugger <dugger@hotlz.com> writes:
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>>Dag-Erling Smørgrav <des@des.no> writes:
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>>>// comments are neither better nor worse than /* */ comments, and
>>>they have been available in C for seven years now.
>>>      
>>>
>>That's pure opinion and one that I haven't head.
>>    
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>
>The availability of // comments in C99, which is now seven years old,
>is fact, not opinion.
>
>DES
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Wrong part of the statement I was talking about it being better or worse.
And again you your missing the point. What does this have to do with why
one would use c rather then c++? Or the myth that c++ has poor performance
in comparison to c.

Don 8)