From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Mar 6 19:21:50 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (trang.nuxi.com [66.92.13.169]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3AB9F37B400 for ; Wed, 6 Mar 2002 19:21:46 -0800 (PST) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.11.6/8.11.1) id g273LDn55342; Wed, 6 Mar 2002 19:21:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien) Date: Wed, 6 Mar 2002 19:17:09 -0800 From: "David O'Brien" To: D J Hawkey Jr Cc: bts@babbleon.org, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: C vs C++ Message-ID: <20020306191709.A55297@dragon.nuxi.com> Reply-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org References: <20020305164731.530B5BA03_i8k.babbleon.org@ns.sol.net> <200203061219.g26CJEJ61813@sheol.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <200203061219.g26CJEJ61813@sheol.localdomain>; from hawkeyd@visi.com on Wed, Mar 06, 2002 at 06:19:14AM -0600 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT Organization: The NUXI BSD group X-Pgp-Rsa-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Rsa-Keyid: 1024/34F9F9D5 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 On Wed, Mar 06, 2002 at 06:19:14AM -0600, D J Hawkey Jr wrote: > > They should have left well enough alone, and advocated languages that > were/are OOPL by concept as well as design. *sigh* IF you say that then you really aren't thinking at at all. Why isn't Eiffel (one of those pure OOL's) used more? BECAUSE IT ISN'T C. Got it? No one is willing to learn a new language. How much bitching do we get because CVSup is written in Modula-3? It is a type-safer language than C. It has some OO-like constructs and its threading model and GUI lib allow JDP to quickly create a really nice application. But all the benefits of Modula-3 are lost on the "I only do C" crowd that is demanding CVSup be rewritten. Thus to repeat -- C++ was built on C SO IT WOULD BE ACCEPTED. > I'll go away now. thank you. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message