From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Mar 5 9:45: 3 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from falcon.prod.itd.earthlink.net (falcon.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.74]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6CFA337B402 for ; Tue, 5 Mar 2002 09:44:57 -0800 (PST) Received: from pool0452.cvx40-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net ([216.244.43.197] helo=mindspring.com) by falcon.prod.itd.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 16iIzZ-00072t-00; Tue, 05 Mar 2002 09:44:49 -0800 Message-ID: <3C850402.90DC1B54@mindspring.com> Date: Tue, 05 Mar 2002 09:44:34 -0800 From: Terry Lambert X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en]C-CCK-MCD {Sony} (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Kenneth Culver Cc: "Eugene L. Vorokov" , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: C vs C++ References: <20020305102829.A3576-100000@alpha.yumyumyum.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 Kenneth Culver wrote: > 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. This is a serious concern for console tools, which are interacting with humans, which are capable of providing commands much faster than a 1.5GHz processor can accept and dispose of them... sorry I missed this downside in my first response. -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message