From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Apr 15 21:38:20 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8F9C816A400 for ; Sat, 15 Apr 2006 21:38:20 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (cain.gsoft.com.au [203.31.81.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7875F43D5A for ; Sat, 15 Apr 2006 21:38:19 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from inchoate.gsoft.com.au (ppp222-116.lns2.adl4.internode.on.net [203.122.222.116]) (authenticated bits=0) by cain.gsoft.com.au (8.13.5/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k3FLbk5b035124 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Sun, 16 Apr 2006 07:07:55 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) From: "Daniel O'Connor" To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Date: Sun, 16 Apr 2006 07:07:26 +0930 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.1 References: <200604151313.32519.benlutz@datacomm.ch> <4441199C.4090802@carebears.mine.nu> In-Reply-To: <4441199C.4090802@carebears.mine.nu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart1898354.FAQ3kS0XKL"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200604160707.27476.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> X-Spam-Score: 0 () X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.56 on 203.31.81.10 Cc: Benjamin Lutz Subject: Re: Why is not more FreeBSD software written in C++? X-BeenThere: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Non technical items related to the community List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 15 Apr 2006 21:38:20 -0000 --nextPart1898354.FAQ3kS0XKL Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Sunday 16 April 2006 01:34, Christer Solskogen wrote: > > 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) A not insignificant reason (IMO) is that C++ is much slower to compile.. Also, gcc didn't use to be (ie when FreeBSD was started) a good C++ compile= r. =2D-=20 Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C --nextPart1898354.FAQ3kS0XKL Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBEQWeX5ZPcIHs/zowRAnv4AJ0eQJS/PQlNsE2qv0O9c+j7jgJlbwCfSvAR SZkanhDCJDf6QZVNjEoGcz4= =w8+S -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart1898354.FAQ3kS0XKL--