From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Mar 5 8:28: 9 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from hotmail.com (law2-f145.hotmail.com [216.32.181.145]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9B10537B405 for ; Tue, 5 Mar 2002 08:28:05 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Tue, 5 Mar 2002 08:28:05 -0800 Received: from 63.67.30.193 by lw2fd.hotmail.msn.com with HTTP; Tue, 05 Mar 2002 16:28:05 GMT X-Originating-IP: [63.67.30.193] From: "Kenneth Mays" To: vel@bugz.infotecs.ru, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: C vs C++ Date: Tue, 05 Mar 2002 11:28:05 -0500 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed Message-ID: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 05 Mar 2002 16:28:05.0530 (UTC) FILETIME=[BA58B7A0:01C1C462] 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 Honestly, there are differences but both are tools to get the job done. Why you use both are really up to you since it depends if your shop wants object oriented programming for maintenance and troubleshooting. I had this happen when dealing with Ada vs. C++ vs. C. The programmers didn't want to use Ada because it wasn't cool or practical. Reality was that many of them didn't know how to program in Ada but had college knowledge on C and no training on object oriented programming. Same happened when C++ became popular. Fact is, managers may understand that the code in C++ is easier to read and maintain. There are reasons to use C++ because of the software engineering methodology and beliefs of its superioriy of C. If that real or not is up to you and the rest of the world. Ken Mays _________________________________________________________________ Join the world’s largest e-mail service with MSN Hotmail. http://www.hotmail.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message