Date: Sat, 21 Jun 97 22:16:21 +0200 From: cracauer@wavehh.hanse.de (Martin Cracauer) To: softweyr@xmission.COM Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: c++ Message-ID: <9706212016.AA24959@wavehh.hanse.de> References: <Pine.BSF.3.95q.970618211755.4632A-100000@aak.anchorage.net> <199706192121.PAA08298@xmission.xmission.com>
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softweyr@xmission.COM (Wes Peters - Softweyr LLC) wrote: >Apparently you've never worked on a large software project with many >similar but not identical elements; this is what C++ really excels at. >If you've looked at C++ but NOT object-oriented design, it's not a >wonder you "dont get it" yet. Last year, I and another engineer >developed a 70,000 line switching application in C++, debugged, tested, >out the door in 13 months. This was in an embedded system, and had to >be rock solid - no memory leaks, no resources losses of any sort. We >literally couldn't have done it with the constraints we had without >C++. Not to start a language war here, but FreeBSD also offers OO languages that don't require becoming a language lawyer and that have much less buggy free implementations, while still offering everything you mention. Objective-C (standard on FreeBSD base system) and Modula-3 (port) come to mind. Anyone having ununderstood problems with C++ should have a look at these. IMHO, of course :-) Martin -- %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Martin_Cracauer@wavehh.hanse.de http://cracauer.cons.org Fax.: +4940 5228536 "As far as I'm concerned, if something is so complicated that you can't ex- plain it in 10 seconds, then it's probably not worth knowing anyway"- Calvin
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