Date: Tue, 5 Mar 2002 10:34:15 -0500 (EST) From: Kenneth Culver <culverk@alpha.yumyumyum.org> To: "Eugene L. Vorokov" <vel@bugz.infotecs.ru> Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: C vs C++ Message-ID: <20020305102829.A3576-100000@alpha.yumyumyum.org> In-Reply-To: <200203051407.g25E7Cd67446@bugz.infotecs.ru>
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> I have a small problem. I work for software development company and > write daemons and console tools for Unix. My boss wants everything to be > written in C++, because he thinks C++ is cool. I prefer C for such > tasks, but I cannot really put good arguments of why and where C++ can > be worse than C. I know many of you prefer C too. Can you please explain > some disadvantages of C++ comparing to C ? Is it slower, does it produce > less effective code, why is it like that, etc ... or please direct me to > some articles where this can be explained. My main problem with C++ is that it adds a lot of overhead, and it's slow. Also, it drives me nuts when people code in C++ and write all kinds of classes when using classes for certain things just doesn't make sense, and makes the code much more convoluted. Ken To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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