Date: Tue, 5 Mar 2002 11:47:31 -0500 From: Brian T.Schellenberger <bts@babbleon.org> To: "Kenneth Mays" <kmays2000@hotmail.com>, vel@bugz.infotecs.ru, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: C vs C++ Message-ID: <20020305164731.530B5BA03@i8k.babbleon.org> In-Reply-To: <LAW2-F145zHHwkqnpib00016ada@hotmail.com> References: <LAW2-F145zHHwkqnpib00016ada@hotmail.com>
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On Tuesday 05 March 2002 11:28 am, Kenneth Mays wrote: > > Fact is, managers may understand that the code in C++ is easier to read and > maintain. This I must disagree with. Most of the time, I think that C++ is harder to read *and* maintain. Well-written C++ is probably easier to read and maintain, but it's harder to write C++ well, and just telling everybody to switch compilers won't help at all -- it's likely to obfuscate the code more. If you want the benefits you've got to re-train everybody to use C++ *well*, which doesn't seem to be what was being suggested in this case. Besides, it's not C++ that provides whatever questionable benefits it provides; it's OO methodology which can come in handy, and there are more elegant OO solutions than C++ around. > There are reasons to use C++ because of the software engineering > methodology and beliefs of its superioriy of C. If that real or not is up > to you and the rest of the world. > > Ken Mays > > > _________________________________________________________________ > Join the world’s largest e-mail service with MSN Hotmail. > http://www.hotmail.com > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message -- Brian T. Schellenberger . . . . . . . bts@wnt.sas.com (work) Brian, the man from Babble-On . . . . bts@babbleon.org (personal) ME --> http://www.babbleon.org http://www.eff.org <-- GOOD GUYS --> http://www.programming-freedom.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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