Date: Tue, 05 Mar 2002 09:49:27 -0700 (MST) From: "M. Warner Losh" <imp@village.org> To: culverk@alpha.yumyumyum.org Cc: vel@bugz.infotecs.ru, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: C vs C++ Message-ID: <20020305.094927.40858673.imp@village.org> In-Reply-To: <20020305102829.A3576-100000@alpha.yumyumyum.org> References: <200203051407.g25E7Cd67446@bugz.infotecs.ru> <20020305102829.A3576-100000@alpha.yumyumyum.org>
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Kenneth Culver <culverk@alpha.yumyumyum.org> writes:
: > 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.
C++ doesn't add noticable overhead and isn't slow, unless you are a
dumbass about how you write it. All languages give you plenty of ways
to write speghetti fortran code :-). C++ gives you a number of ways
to obfuscate.
Warner
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