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

[Benjamin Lutz]

Something occurred to me just now. I've been looking at the summer of code 
page, where I noticed the "Rewrite cvsup in C" entry. When Perl was removed 
from the FreeBSD base, the general notion was to rewrite any Perl scripts in 
sh or C.

Why is it that C++ is not used for our programs? The C++ compiler is in the 
base and built by default, and the OOP paradigm is a nice one, that many 
programmers, especially the younger ones (like me :) ) are probably more 
familiar with than the tricks and techniques used in C to achieve good 
efficiency.

My first guess is that it's a habit. People dealing with the FreeBSD source 
code are used to C, and therefore use that for their apps. If it's only that, 
there'd be no good reason for not writing a tool like cvsup in C++, right? Or 
is there a more technical reason?

Cheers
Benjamin
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