Date: Tue, 5 Mar 2002 17:40:48 +0100 From: Raymond Wiker <Raymond.Wiker@fast.no> To: Kenneth Culver <culverk@alpha.yumyumyum.org> Cc: Martin Ankerl <martinankerl@web.de>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: C vs C++ Message-ID: <15492.62736.239246.919734@raw.grenland.fast.no> In-Reply-To: <20020305113039.W3994-100000@alpha.yumyumyum.org> References: <001701c1c461$a5b21db0$df02110a@klumpert> <20020305113039.W3994-100000@alpha.yumyumyum.org>
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Kenneth Culver writes:
> The code itself may be fast, but programs written in c++ tend to link to a
> lot of shared libs, which in itself can be pretty slow.
That's *not* unique to C++. On my machine, /usr/lib contains
73 shared libs, and these are mainly C libraries.
If you want arguments against C++, try any of these:
C++ programs use a *lot* of header files, and these do in
general cause more work for the compiler than do the C header
files. This boils down to noticeably longer compile times.
C++ is a *much* larger language, with *much* more complicated
semantics and behaviour. A large proportion of C++ programmers do not
know the language well enough that they should be allowed to program
in it.
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