From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Mar 5 9:50:16 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 30E5C37B405 for ; Tue, 5 Mar 2002 09:50:11 -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 16iJ4h-0007Xv-00; Tue, 05 Mar 2002 09:50:07 -0800 Message-ID: <3C850540.EA8EDE0F@mindspring.com> Date: Tue, 05 Mar 2002 09:49:52 -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: "Steve B." Cc: "Eugene L. Vorokov" , freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: C vs C++ References: <200203051407.g25E7Cd67446@bugz.infotecs.ru> <001201c1c464$06416fd0$f642d9cf@DROID> 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 "Steve B." wrote: > I take a simplistic view after years of C++. > > C++ is good for large projects that need to be maintained into the future. > Then the advantages of OO starts to kick in. For small projects that won't > change much then C is the better choice IMO. Wow. Forgot this disadvantage of C++, too. Yeah, it's difficult to write code that someone else couldn't come in and maintain after it was done. This means that the normal rules about "write important code and you have a job forever" no longer apply. 8-(. -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message