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

[Erich Dollansky]

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?

Erich