Why is not more FreeBSD software written in C++?

Andrew Pantyukhin infofarmer at gmail.com
Mon Apr 17 06:59:11 UTC 2006


On 4/17/06, Erich Dollansky <oceanare at pacific.net.sg> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote:
> > James Bailie <jimmy at jamesbailie.com> writes:
> >> Efficiency is of prime importance in systems programming.  The
> >> only language in which one can write more efficient programs than
> >> in C, is assembler, but it's not portable.
> >
> > This is a myth.  I'm surprised to see it a Lisp programmer perpetuate
>
> it is a myth that assembler is not portable?

No, obviously the other thing.


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