From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Mar 5 16:27:27 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 2FC7237B400 for ; Tue, 5 Mar 2002 16:27:25 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 6718 invoked from network); 6 Mar 2002 00:27:18 -0000 Received: from dsl092-171-091.wdc1.dsl.speakeasy.net (66.92.171.91) by dsl092-171-091.wdc1.dsl.speakeasy.net with SMTP; 6 Mar 2002 00:27:18 -0000 Date: Tue, 5 Mar 2002 19:27:18 -0500 (EST) From: Kenneth Culver To: Erik Trulsson Cc: Terry Lambert , "Steve B." , "Eugene L. Vorokov" , Subject: Re: C vs C++ In-Reply-To: <20020305215702.GA76733@student.uu.se> Message-ID: <20020305192548.Y6706-100000@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 > I do agree that when the extra features of C++ are used this often > results in bloated programs but this can at least in part be blamed on > insufficiently skilled programmers. > > > Note that C++ is not really an OO language. It is probably better to > call it a language with support for object-oriented programming (as > well as support for other programming styles.) > I'll agree to that... :-D It's basically what I've been trying to say. That and if he's using gcc to compile, he might not get completely un-buggy code when he compiles c++ apps. Ken To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message