Date: Sat, 15 Apr 2006 18:04:44 +0200 From: Christer Solskogen <solskogen@carebears.mine.nu> To: Benjamin Lutz <benlutz@datacomm.ch> Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Why is not more FreeBSD software written in C++? Message-ID: <4441199C.4090802@carebears.mine.nu> In-Reply-To: <200604151313.32519.benlutz@datacomm.ch> References: <200604151313.32519.benlutz@datacomm.ch>
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Benjamin Lutz wrote: > Something occurred to me just now. I've been looking at the summer of code > page, where I noticed the "Rewrite cvsup in C" entry. When Perl was removed > from the FreeBSD base, the general notion was to rewrite any Perl scripts in > sh or C. > > Why is it that C++ is not used for our programs? The C++ compiler is in the > base and built by default, and the OOP paradigm is a nice one, that many > programmers, especially the younger ones (like me :) ) are probably more > familiar with than the tricks and techniques used in C to achieve good > efficiency. > > My first guess is that it's a habit. People dealing with the FreeBSD source > code are used to C, and therefore use that for their apps. If it's only that, > there'd be no good reason for not writing a tool like cvsup in C++, right? Or > is there a more technical reason? If you really want you can code whatever tool you need in c++. I guess cvsup was rewritten in C because the developer understands C, and not C++ (or the task of rewrite cvsup in C++ would be harder) -- chs
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