From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Mar 5 7:34:22 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mailhub.yumyumyum.org (dsl092-171-091.wdc1.dsl.speakeasy.net [66.92.171.91]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id BC8AE37B400 for ; Tue, 5 Mar 2002 07:34:19 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 3638 invoked from network); 5 Mar 2002 15:34:15 -0000 Received: from dsl092-171-091.wdc1.dsl.speakeasy.net (66.92.171.91) by dsl092-171-091.wdc1.dsl.speakeasy.net with SMTP; 5 Mar 2002 15:34:15 -0000 Date: Tue, 5 Mar 2002 10:34:15 -0500 (EST) From: Kenneth Culver To: "Eugene L. Vorokov" Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: C vs C++ In-Reply-To: <200203051407.g25E7Cd67446@bugz.infotecs.ru> Message-ID: <20020305102829.A3576-100000@alpha.yumyumyum.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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 > 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