Date: Tue, 05 Mar 2002 12:26:02 -0800 From: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> To: Kenneth Culver <culverk@alpha.yumyumyum.org> Cc: "Steve B." <steveb99@earthlink.net>, "Eugene L. Vorokov" <vel@bugz.infotecs.ru>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: C vs C++ Message-ID: <3C8529DA.FA8ABCE@mindspring.com> References: <20020305132457.A4700-100000@alpha.yumyumyum.org>
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Kenneth Culver wrote: > Why are you being so sarcastic? Everyone here is assuming that it's harder > to write C++ code, so you should only use it if necessary. It isn't > necessary to use it for something like a daemon. Because that underlying assumption is false, and I'm making fun of it. If you don't use C++ specific features, you're just writing C code anyway. It's not harder to write C++ code that uses the special features of the language; it may be harder for a programmer unfamiliar with the language, but it's not harder for everyone. It's harder for me to write code in languages with which I'm unfamiliar. Big deal. That's a problem with my familiarity, not with the language. There are a lot of benefits to the use of C++ that outweigh the downside, particularly if you are a company paying for something, and you want to invest the value in the code base instead of investing it in people who can walk out the door and sign with your competition tomorrow. Again... big deal. If it was something you'd do anyway, then they wouldn't be paying you to get you to do it. -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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