Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2000 10:45:02 -0700 (PDT) From: Linh Pham <lplist@closedsrc.org> To: t g <unixboy007@hotmail.com> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: why c? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0008151042180.83027-100000@q.closedsrc.org> In-Reply-To: <F27g6A7oPiFEW6sStwN00000d3d@hotmail.com>
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On Tue, 15 Aug 2000, t g mumbled: > i've been trying to learn unix off and on for a while now, and i finally > trashed windoze ;-) now i'm running freebsd 4.0-release (only... no more > windows at all!). > > anyway, when i was in college (not to long ago) i took a number of > programming classes and all but one of them used c++. so, my question is, > why is everything written in c? is it simply because unix was written > before c++, or is c better for an os? > > i'm also interested in a good book on programming operating system if anyone > has a recommendation (doesn't have to be geared toward unix). > > thanks. The main issue with C++ is that it's convuluted and filled with mayhem :) A lot of programs are done in C mostly because it is more cross-platform friendly than many programming languages. Meaning that you can easily port a program written in C to run on UNIX, DOS, Windows, etc. Try doing that with BASIC :) // Linh Pham // http://closedsrc.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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