From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Mar 5 10:25:44 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 01B2B37B405 for ; Tue, 5 Mar 2002 10:25:38 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 4808 invoked from network); 5 Mar 2002 18:25:32 -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 18:25:32 -0000 Date: Tue, 5 Mar 2002 13:25:32 -0500 (EST) From: Kenneth Culver To: Terry Lambert Cc: "Steve B." , "Eugene L. Vorokov" , Subject: Re: C vs C++ In-Reply-To: <3C850540.EA8EDE0F@mindspring.com> Message-ID: <20020305132457.A4700-100000@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 Why are you being so sarcastic? Everyone here is assuming that it's harder to write C++ code, so you should only use it if necessary. It isn't necessary to use it for something like a daemon. Ken On Tue, 5 Mar 2002, Terry Lambert wrote: > "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 > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message