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

[Daniel O'Connor]

On Sunday 16 April 2006 01:34, Christer Solskogen wrote:
> > 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?
>
> If you really want you can code whatever tool you need in c++. I guess
> cvsup was rewritten in C because the developer understands C, and not
> C++ (or the task of rewrite cvsup in C++ would be harder)

A not insignificant reason (IMO) is that C++ is much slower to compile..

Also, gcc didn't use to be (ie when FreeBSD was started) a good C++ compiler.

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